Should we be rushing to get that beach bod?
As summer approaches and the world reaches for their short shorts and panics about cellulite, we asked the age-old question: do we really need to get in shape for summer?
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Society anxiety: this SUcks
As term three regret draws in Gena-mour Barrett reflects on the shortcomings of SU Societies...
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Police conduct campus search over student welfare concerns
Accommodation search was not illegal, says campus police officer
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The Big Spring Clearout
If, like me, you can’t open your cupboard without something falling out, the idea of a clearout constitutes a mini heart attack.
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Warwick beaten in annual Water Polo tournament
Defeat for Warwick Swimming and Water Polo club in an informal but competitive tournament in the Sports Centre last week.
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Rate your bookshelf
Are you a fan of teen-fiction, a lover of literary classics, or a sci-fi sentimentalist? 5 writers assess their own bookshelves and find out what dark, book-related secrets they harbour
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Store Wars
Leamington has found itself at the centre of a retail war this year with the opening of the UK’s largest Morrison’s on Old Warwick Road. The town’s already vast selection of food retailers has evoked concern for some residents about how this competition will affect prices, and whether this will...
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Renewable bioplastics go under the microscope
A team from the University of Warwick, in conjunction with company Biome Bioplastics, is studying how 100 percent renewable bioplastics could be created. The research team is hoping to do this by deriving chemicals from the breakdown of a waste product from paper manufacture, called lignin. This should not only...
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Bitch Boxer: One Woman’s Dream of Boxing for Team GB
David Levelsey reviews the enthralling, one woman show Bitch Boxer at Warwick Arts Centre, detailing the highs and lows of training as a female boxer for the Olympics.
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Moss is wrong: female drivers will soon be thriving in Formula 1
Amazingly it is 2013, the twenty-first century. I say “amazingly”, because if you have read Stirling Moss’ recent comments on women racing drivers, you may be thinking we’re stuck in 1953. The legendary F1 driver said “I think they have the strength, but I don’t know if they’ve got the...
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We’re not just horsing around
Emily Wright, the Warwick Riding President, looks back on a fantastic year.
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Looters in the library
A number of students’ belongings have been stolen as a result of being left unattended in the University library. Campus police officer Mick Parkes told the Boar that five thefts of valuable items were reported to the campus police in 2012. Two laptops, two purses and one mobile phone were...
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