A few weeks ago we started using a new five-pound note with the British wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill on it. Churchill is considered a hero by many in Britain and indeed was voted the ‘Greatest Briton’ in a BBC poll a few years ago. However as Prime Minister he...
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A Prevent Conference, run by Warwick Students’ Union (SU) and co-hosted with Warwick Anti-Racism Society, took place on campus during Saturday 15 October. Prevent is a policy relating to the government’s Counter Terrorism and Security Act 2015, taught as a form of de-radicalisation. It began in 2006, followed by Channel...
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Warwick’s very own researcher Professor Jane Hutton of the Warwick Statistics department has been chosen as one of the first five women to ever receive the Suffrage award in mathematics. The award ceremony held at Bletchley Park fittingly coincided with Ada Lovelace day 2016- an international celebration of women in...
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Netflix, the love/bane of my existence, are renowned for creating some of the greatest TV series… Now they’ve decided to make Lemony Snickets, A Series of Unfortunate Events into a series. Now, growing up as an awkward 90’s kid, there are some books you treasure for your entire life. They...
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As we celebrate Black History Month, the recent documentary on Ashe reminds us that your background, appearance and stature should never faze you.
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Chloe Wynne, Welfare and Campaigns Officer at Warwick Students’ Union (SU), has recently set up a new wellbeing stand in the foyer of POP! which both promotes the importance of student welfare and mental health. The stand offers students condoms, sanitary products and advice cards, along with other free...
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A car with Polish number plates was vandalised and badly damaged recently, in what is seemingly a racially motivated attack. The car was parked in the Brunswick Street area. It was the only vehicle singled out and damaged on a busy residential road. The owner, a Warwick graduate, was away...
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With the exception of some of the Peace prizes, the Nobel Prizes rarely ever tend to receive much in the way of controversy – this year, however, there was some curtesy of the award for Literature, which was received by iconic musician Bob Dylan. With the award came a number...
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I am a second year English and Italian Literature student, meaning spending a year in Italy is compulsory for me to progress onto third year. Whilst living in Italy has always been a dream of mine, there have been moments where I’ve been sat at my desk, head in my hands,...
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When people think of lifesaving, they tend to picture someone passively sitting pool-side. As Rebecca Ewers explains, it's so much more...
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October is Black History Month, and a series of events organised by Warwick Anti-Racism Society are marking the occasion. Black History Month began as “Negro History Week” in 1926, becoming a month-long celebration in 1976. Celebrated in February in the USA and October in the UK, Black History Month aims...
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Kasbah nightclub are claiming to have received a cease and desist demand from The Trump Organization, shown in a status posted on the club’s Facebook page. The correspondence comes after Kasbah used an image of Donald Trump on one of their recent Halloween promotional advertisements. The letter, written by Alan...
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Last week brought us the first BUCS Wednesday of 2016/17. James Roberts was there to witness a mixed afternoon for Warwick's sports clubs
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