4/5 stars The wildly misleading trailer for The Place Beyond The Pines sells it as a Heat-style clash between Ryan Gosling’s bank robber and Bradley Cooper’s lawman. Derek Cianfrance’s film never takes that road, […]
Books: New Review: Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi
Taiye Selasi’s long-awaited debut is finally here. From the very beginning, it has been surrounded by hype, and with hype comes expectations that could easily ruin such an eagerly anticipated book. But not this one. […]
Books: New Review: The Things We Know Now by Catherine Dunne
The Things We Know Now offers, as the title suggests, an example of the power of hindsight. However, this insightful novel confronts the crisis that the Grants face following the suicide of their fourteen-year old […]
Edge staff put on Spin cycle
Last Wednesday staff at the Edge got on their bikes in a bid to raise £18, 000 for charity. Students and staff battled each other in the Super Spin-a-thon to see who could cycle the […]
Bus fares to increase across Leeds
A fare rise on buses across Leeds is to go ahead, despite opposition from students. As of January 2 next year, fares on First Buses in Leeds will see an average increase of 7 per […]
Student lands world’s best job
Leeds student Seb Smith has slipped past stiff competition to land ‘the world’s best job’ as an Official Waterslide Tester. Smith, a Design Technology student, took part in a five month long selection challenge, ultimately […]
Rate Your Lecturer
Ever feel like having a rant about your lecturers? Or do you just want to tell everyone how much you love them? A recent graduate has given students the opportunity to do just that by launching […]
Refectory food waste revealed
The Refectory has wasted nearly £50 worth of food every day for eight months, this newspaper can reveal. According to figures from a Freedom of Information request submitted by this newspaper, more than £11,000 worth […]
Teen jailed for attempted rape of student
An 18 year-old man has been sentenced for the attempted rape of a student. Last Thursday, local teenager Jacob Feldman was sent to jail for three years and eight months by a judge at Leeds […]
Students win case against Landlord
Five students have won a court case against their landlord, after he tried to claim a year’s worth of rent from them. The second year students won their own claim as well as their legal […]
Pubes
A dog hair is floating in my cereal milk like spindly canoe on a lake. What with North Korea’s take on Toni and Guy, the forgotten plughole blockage we left in our shower before Easter, […]
World Doesn’t Owe You a Living
According to my mother in one of her ‘life lesson’ discussions, we as students expect to have the world handed to us on a plate. We are an ungrateful generation of kids who have been […]