Students have expressed their anger over lengthy queues and insufficient space in the gym at the Edge sports centre. Gym-goers complained of queuing, with up to five people waiting for each machine at peak times. […]
Taxi driver found guilty after hitting student
A Leeds taxi driver has admitted to driving without due care and attention when he hit a student last January, inflicting ‘catastrophic’ injuries. Edward Buckley, who was training to be commercial airline pilot, was struck […]
Flooding in Lyddon Halls dampens spirits
Residents of Lyddon Hall were startled in the early hours of the morning to find water swamping their corridor. The incident occurred after a burst pipe in a bathroom on the second floor led to […]
White Van man speaker scam
A student has parted with hundreds of pounds after falling victim to a well-known sales scam. The second year student was sold some speakers while walking home from University. Two men pulled up in a […]
Purple Parky for LGBT History Month launch
Students have celebrated the start of this year’s Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) History Month at a launch party at the University this week. The event, hosted by the Unions’ LGBT society in the Parkinson […]
Buy a First Class Degree
25.01.13 An investigation by Leeds Student has found that the University has no fail-proof way to detect whether students have bought their essays online. Current technology can only detect when content has been submitted elsewhere. […]
Cash strapped girls seek ‘Sugar Daddies’
25.01.13 A regular user of a “Sugar Daddy” dating website has spoken exclusively to Leeds Student about her experience. Following the claim that almost 100 students at Leeds are signed up to seekingarrangement.com, this paper […]
LS interviews: Liam Burns, President of NUS
25.01.13 Would you encourage individual students unions, like ours, to implement the living wage? If it was possible, then yes – but it’s not as if people just get it overnight. There might be perfectly […]
Student workers paid ‘poverty wage’
Despite the Union lobbying the University to pay its staff the living wage, it is failing to do so for its own employees. Last year a Better Union idea was passed which stated that the […]
Patience tested by exam failings
25.01.13 Chaos has disrupted the exam period, with students having to put up with missing questions and being given the wrong papers. In December, second year Biochemistry students found themselves sitting an exam on topics […]
Police act after LS exposes dangerous legal highs
14.12.12 West Yorkshire police have launched a campaign to target ‘legal highs’ after an investigation by Leeds Student exposed their sale by dozens of Leeds traders. They have announced that shops that sell ‘legal highs’, […]
Student sexually assaulted on campus
12.12.12 Police are investigating reports of a serious sexual assault on a 20 year old female student on campus. Police say the incident took place in the early hours of Sunday morning (9 December) in […]