Two men were convicted at Liverpool Crown Court yesterday of killing 24 year old Liverpool Student Sion Hardy. Simon Taylor and Kevin O’Dea, both 22, were convicted of manslaughter after they attacked him following a night out at the Nation Club in Liverpool last November. The foreman of the jury broke down in tears as she [...]
Dan Wright The issue of immigration into the U.K. is constantly on-going. It seems every other week the government is announcing a new initiative to help people who have arrived in the country from less developed nations. Migration into the UK from Asia and Africa has been added to in recent years by people entering the [...]
A recent report conducted by the UK’s top website for graduate recruitment, milkround.com has uncovered a worrying rise in work place discrimination aimed at students and recent graduates with ethnicity at its core. These worrying results revealed a shocking 86 percent of students and graduates questioned felt they had faced discrimination, up from 81 percent [...]
1. Fancy Dress Perhaps this goes without saying, but fancy dress is a must for any self-respecting student(or not as the case may be!), and Liverpool leaves you with no excuse, as there are a range of places where ridiculous outfits can be purchased. Smiffy’s on Bold Street offers a treasure trove of guises, as [...]
Louise Ellman MP Dr Martin Luther King Junior once said that “an injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” One of the glaring injustices that still blights our world today is the trafficking of women The International Labour Organisation has stated that 2.4 million people each year are victims of trafficking, generating profits of [...]
Whether it’s for a beer or just a few games of darts, going to the pub is an essential part of a student’s life, but now it is under threat. Rising costs and tax increases have meant pubs have found it difficult to survive, and over 50 pubs a month are closing down. In 2000 beer [...]
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