Reading in the news - Fri 29 Jan

• The Daily Express website features video of the visit of HRH the Earl of Wessex to the Life Sciences Building last term, where he met scientists working on Covid-19.

Flexible flight paths: Berliner Zeitung reports on a study by Cathie Wells and Paul Williams (Meteorology) showing airlines can save fuel by redirecting aircraft to fly in, or around, the jet stream. Read our news story, and watch our video here.

Coastal archaeology: Professor Martin Bell (Archaeology) appears on a BBC Radio 4 documentary, Julia Blackburn and the Suffolk coast, about the history and landscape of this coastline.

Other coverage:

• BBC Radio Berkshire trail a new series of interviews with the MERL's '51 voices' to mark its 70^th anniversary and origins from the 1951 Festival of Britain. The first interview will be featured today (Friday) from 10am. Listen here.
• Architects Journal reports that the University of Reading Library has been shortlisted for an AJ Retrofit design award.
• Daily Maverick (S Africa) features a blog by Jon Foster-Pedley (Henley Africa) on the value of disruption to our work lives.
• New Food Magazine and Food Ingredients First highlight an EIT Food survey showing increased consumer confidence in farmers. Read our news story.
• The Ministry of Justice announces that Professor Chris Bones (Henley Business School) has been appointed to a review panel for legal aid.
• The Countryman (in print) highlights a MERL project to uncover informal names made up by children for rural locations, led by Dr Jeremy Burchardt (History).