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• MEP boycotts 'tobacco cash' university 

A member of the European Parliament has resigned as a special lecturer at a university which has accepted funding from a tobacco company. . .

Now the East Midlands Euro MP, Mel Read, has decided to resign as a special lecturer at the university's adult education centre and as a member of the University Court - a formal body made up of local dignitaries.

When news of the deal broke, Ms Read - herself a graduate of Nottingham University - wrote to the vice chancellor, Sir Colin Campbell, to her express her concerns.

The reply was, she said, "rather anodyne" and merely suggested another university would have taken the cash if Nottingham had not.

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