Last Wednesday (20th February) saw the grand opening of LUU’s new Co-op store. LUU have said that the decision to transform Essentials into a Co-op would “provide [students] with more choice of products, cheaper options […]
Practice What You Preach – How Sustainable are This Year’s Community Candidates?
It’s that time of the year again, where walls are plastered in brightly-coloured posters promising environmental concern and sustainability – the irony is truly real. An average campaigner will print off around 200 A4 posters […]
Corbyn and May to Face More Resignations, Says Newly Formed Independent Group
Ian Austin has become the ninth Labour MP to quit the party in a week of resignations. The Dudley North MP cited the mishandling of antisemitism within the Party and what he sees as the […]
Ceiling Collapse Causes Disruption at Beaver Works’ Cirque Club Night
Beaver Works’ sell-out Cirque Du Soul club night was interrupted at around 2am last night, following the partial collapse of the room’s ceiling. The incident reportedly occurred during Purple Disco Machine’s set in the Tall […]
Emily Thornberry Visits Leeds Labour Students
On Saturday 2nd February, Leeds Labour Students were very lucky to catch up and have a cuppa with Shadow Foreign Secretary, Emily Thornberry. Emily visited us at Hyde Park Book Club for an informal chat […]
Housing Crisis Causing a Surge in Young Adults Living at Home
Nearly a million more young adults are now living with their parents than 20 years ago, research into the housing crisis suggests. A quarter of 20 to 34-year-olds now live with their parents, a third […]
New Drop in State School Students Going to University
The number of state school students progressing to university has dropped for the first time in eight years, according to the Higher Education Statistics Agency. In the academic year 2017/2018, only 89.5 per cent of […]
Why Get a Job When You Can be Paid to Get Malaria?
There has been a surge in students willing to be a part of medical trials in exchange for financial payment. Students are paid as much as £3500 to be infected with diseases such as typhoid, […]
Warwick Vice Chancellor Must Resign Over ‘Chat Rape’ Scandal, Say Protesters
Embattled Vice-Chancellor of Warwick University, Stuart Croft, is refusing to stand down amidst calls for his resignation by student protesters who marched on campus last Wednesday. Hundreds of students descended onto the campus’s piazza on […]
Campus Watch
University of Sussex: Students Straying from ‘Traditional’ Societies Students at the University of Sussex have made the decision to ditch nightclubs and parties for societies that are dedicated purely to activities such as bingo and, […]
Students Set to Strike
Students of all ages are set to gather outside Leeds Town Hall at 11am today, in protest of inadequate climate control regulations and the British government’s perceived inability to effectively address the growing climate crisis. […]
The Reality of Having Coeliac Disease
I’ve been gluten free since I was 17. I’m now 21. I remember the grogginess, the brain fog, the constant lethargy and feeling sick and not knowing why. It took the doctors months to conclude […]