Warwick Vice-Chancellor Stuart Croft and Becky Gittins, the SU’s Democracy and Development Officer, have shared a “call to action,” urging students to register to vote in the upcoming elections before the deadline next Monday. The call, shared on the Vice-Chancellor’s blog, commented that “there are also many misconceptions around who is eligible to...
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Over 1,200 students, campaigners and elected officers arrived in Brighton on the last Wednesday of April for the National Union of Students (NUS) annual conference.
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A draft of the Labour Party’s election manifesto was leaked yesterday. The document, which was due to be released next week, includes plans to scrap tuition fees, invest an extra £6 billion into the National Health Service (NHS) and reserve a further 4,000 homes for rough sleepers. The manifesto proposes to...
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The Warwick Goose has officially announced his candidacy to become member of parliament for the constituency of Warwick and Leamington. The Goose, who boasts over 700 likes on Facebook, made the announcement on his page earlier this evening, simultaneously releasing a promotional video to signal the launch of his campaign....
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Coventry has officially launched its bid to become the country’s next City of Culture in 2021, after submitting a 30-page and 20,000 word long document stating its case. If it wins the competition, the prestigious title could attract new investors as well as stimulate local economic and cultural developments. The Heritage...
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Two dozen Conservative MPs under investigation for electoral fraud will find out whether they face prosecution in the weeks before the surprise elections on June 8, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has confirmed. The announcement on whether the Conservative MPs accused of misrepresenting local and national spending rules to bypass...
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Prime minister Theresa May has called for a snap election this 8 June, despite repeated promises that there would not be an early election before 2020, to ensure stability. In a short statement outside Number 10, the prime minister confirmed that a vote on whether to hold the early ballot...
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A second gnome massacre at Echills Woods Railway’s gnome village last Thursday night has left the owners unable to rebuild. The late night massacre saw the destruction of approximately 60 garden gnomes by three hammer-wielding vandals, captured on CCTV footage. Parts of the railway were also torn apart. The last...
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University staff have called for an assembly of all academic workers to challenge a controversial statute reform which could limit employees’ rights and academic freedom. On Tuesday, it was announced that this meeting will take place on Friday 12 May, between 10:30 and 11:30am. The Statute 24 reform will repeal most...
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The West Midlands Police has become the 13th police force to send in its files on the 2015 election fraud investigation to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS). The case has implicated two dozen MPs and 19 police forces over the country since a Daily Mirror investigation last March revealed that...
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Warwick University’s Sub Aqua club have raised almost £700 for the British Lung Foundation by swimming across the English Channel and back, underwater. The swim, which took place on Saturday 4 March, was initially only intended to cover 22 miles, the length of Channel, but the 21 swimmers surpassed their...
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Yesterday, Stagecoach announced a hike to the regional bus fares which is set to take effect next Sunday 2 April. The Unirider bus passes, which are currently unaffected, are set to increase in September. As single fares rose by between 10p and 40p, a single ticket between Warwick University and Leamington...
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The first Warwick Summer Festival will take place in Coventry on Saturday 17 June, acting as a replacement for the traditional end-of-exams Summer Party which was discontinued in 2013. The organisers, who announced the launch last Wednesday, have promised a line-up of famous artists and world-known DJs alongside local acts,...
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