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Latest news on University head adopting daughter (6)

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I believe the answer is:

update

'latest news' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'university head adopting daughter' is the wordplay.
'university' becomes 'u'.
'head' becomes 'pate' (I've seen this before).
'adopting' is an insertion indicator.
'daughter' becomes 'd'.
'pate' placed around 'd' is 'pdate'.
'u'+'pdate'='UPDATE'

'on' is the link.

(Other definitions for update that I've seen before include "Brief" , "Latest information" , "Supply latest info" , "Bring to the latest state, records say" , "change of status" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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