Trying partner

Junior partners in academic takeovers tend to lose their distinctive identity, but the rugby team at West London Institute of Higher Education - now adhered to Brunel University as Brunel University College - are evidently bent on retarding the process as much as possible. The British Universities Sports Association tournament brought BUC, still separate for sport, together with its new parent institution last week and left them in no doubt which is the senior partner - on the rugby field at least. Final score: Brunel 4 BUC 104.