West Yorkshire Police are appealing for witnesses after a cyclist was killed and a driver seriously injured in a road traffic incident last night on Kirkstall Road nearby the Cardigan Fields retail park. The 33-year-old […]
History’s mad scientists and their obsession with death
The Ancient Egyptians, Vikings and modern Christianity – all major civilisations and belief systems throughout history have had some predications concerning life after death. In contrast to these beliefs others have attempted to stop or, […]
Campus Watch: Students show their grief for the King of Thailand
The death of the King of Thailand on Thursday 13th October sent the country into a state of mourning. Thai citizens are showing their grief by wearing black and general solemnity, including closing bars and […]
Attempted burglar falls to his death
On Saturday 8th October police were called to Claremont Avenue, situated within half a mile of the University, as a man’s body had been found outside a house. Students living on the road awoke to […]
Attempted burglar falls to his death
On Saturday 8th October police were called to Claremont Avenue, situated within half a mile of the university, as a man’s body had been found outside a house. Students living on the road awoke to […]
Warning over diet pills linked to Leeds student death
Police have warned of the dangers of ‘toxic’ slimming pills linked to the death of a Leeds student who took a lethal dose of the drug DNP. The crime agency Interpol this week issued a […]
UPDATE – Police appeal after Mint Club death
Police are investigating the death of a woman who collapsed at Mint Club this weekend. Paramedics attended the scene in the early hours of Sunday morning. The woman was taken to Leeds General Infirmary, where […]
News | Future Leeds student dies in unexplained fall
Tributes have been paid to a student about to start at Leeds University who died last Wednesday. Jeevan Singh Dhanda, who held an offer to study economics, was found on railway tracks at Birmingham New […]
News | Leeds student died from ‘drug use’
A Leeds University student died following ‘recent drug use’, an inquest has heard. Natasha Brunton, who studied Law and French, was found dead at home in Sevenoaks, Kent in February. The court inquest last Tuesday […]
News | Student confirmed dead at Leodis Halls
A student at Leodis Residences has been confirmed dead. Police were called to the student halls on North West Road at 7.40pm on Friday following ‘a call of concern for a man there’. The body […]
News | Student dies from drugs cocktail
Students have been expressing their grief following the death of a final year Dentistry student. An inquest into the suddent death of Mariam Ali Shaabam Hussain Khesroh found she had taken a concoction of ketamine […]
Film | The Book Thief – Nazi Germany, as told by death
Image: Fox 2000 Pictures Film adaptations of books are always a tricky one, especially when it comes to something like the Book Thief. It’s one of those much loved international best-sellers by Markus Zusak, and […]