While Google is taking a step towards being a conventional company, Dr Aleksi Aaltonen, Assistant Professor at the Warwick Business School, argues that "the holding company structure raises the question would different businesses be better off as independent companies".

"The outpouring of criticism towards the American hunter who killed Cecil the lion and those who helped him in Zimbabwe is likely to be a much bigger penalty than he will face through the justice system," says Dr Eric Jensen, an internationally recognised expert on public engagement with wildlife.

Beat Kümin is a Professor of Early Modern European History at the University of Warwick and co-founder of the "Drinking Studies Network". Responding to news that British police are to go on patrol in Magaluf and Ibiza, he said: “International police co-operation to curb drinking excess has to be welcomed. As researchers in the field have known for a long time, responses to alcohol are not simply determined by physiological processes, but shaped by cultural norms and practices."

Professor Andrew Easton, a virologu from the University of Warwick's School of Life Science, has called the results of a trial for an Ebola vaccine as "extremely positive".

Dr Eric Jensen, an internationally recognised expert on public engagement with wildlife, reacts to the shooting of Cecil the lion. He said: "The fact that in 2015 people are still travelling thousands of miles to kill exotic animals and bring back trophies shows that there are deep-seated cultural problems in Western societies, where such behaviour should be unthinkable."