Cannabis is the most commonly used drug in the UK, with 7.2% of adults aged 16-59 admitting to smoking it in the last year, according to the Home Office Crime Survey. A recent poll by […]
Leeds Opens Applications for its First University Challenge Team since 2011
Leeds University Union are searching for the five brightest students at Leeds to send to University Challenge for the first time since 2011. If you consider yourself to be a serial quizzer or a genius […]
Holbeck Residents Seeing Red: Is the End in Sight for the UK’s First Legal Red Light District?
Locals, businesses and councillors are calling for an independent review of the UK’s first managed street-sex work zone. It was put in place in October 2014 by community safety partnership “Safety Leeds”, but many are […]
Survey Names Leeds UK’s Third-Largest ‘Halloween Hotspot’
Leeds is renowned for the Otley Run, a fancy-dress pub crawl encompassing 16 different venues. But does the city’s love of dressing up extend to Halloween? My brother just told mum he’s doing the Otley […]
Air Pollution: The Silent Killer
Leeds is the third worst polluted city in the UK and one of seven major cities to breach EU-regulated legal levels of air quality. If nothing is done to change this, the city will receive […]
Imperial College London Plans Dual-Nationality Partnership Post-Brexit
Imperial College London has signed a flagship partnership with the Technical University of Munich, according to the BBC. UK universities are worried about the impact Brexit might have on their ability to receive research funding […]
University of Leeds’ Race Pay Gap Revealed
The Universities of Leeds, Manchester, York, and Durham all showed similar results when reviewing the disparities between salaries according to race. In the request made to the University of Leeds, the statistics showed dramatic differences in […]
Chelsea FC to Send Racist Fans to Auschwitz
Chelsea Football club have revealed plans to offer fans found to have been using discriminatory language a chance to take part in an educational visit to the Nazi extermination camp Auschwitz. The programme, spearheaded by […]
Leeds Students are ‘Playing with Fire’ When it Comes to Electrical Safety, Study Shows
Most first year students have never lived on their own prior to university. As a result, they are often ill-informed about kitchen safety, or don’t take it as seriously as they should. UK Charity Electrical […]
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University of Bristol Introduces ‘Science of Happiness’ Scheme to Combat Mental Health Problems The University of Bristol have implemented a new scheme called the ‘science of happiness’ course after a student took his own life […]
University of Leeds Launches StandAlone Pledge for Estranged Students
This month the University of Leeds will launch its ‘StandAlone pledge’, part of a nation-wide scheme to help estranged students studying without the support or approval of a family network. StandAlone estimates that there are […]
We’re Destroying Our Planet – IPCC Report Calls for Drastic Action on Climate Change
Climate change is in the news again. The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s annual report announces yet more chilling details; there are twelve years remaining to reign in greenhouse emissions, before we face catastrophic […]