A Durham college head has apologised for calling students "pathetic" after they walked out when the journalist Rod Liddle spoke at a formal dinner.

Professor Tim Luckhurst, principal of South College, reportedly shouted "at South College, we value freedom of speech" as several students left the dining hall in protest at the choice of guest speaker.

The university has launched an investigation, saying it is "concerned" about the "behaviours exhibited" during the evening.

In an apology email to members of the college, Professor Luckhurst said that students had "exercised their right" to leave dinner and added that the students had "as much right to absent themselves from the speech as my guest had to make it".

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