LX NEWS LAUNCHES UK’S FIRST STUDENT DESKTOP NEWS TICKER

After weeks in the making, LX News can today unveil its latest creation – the UK’s first student desktop news ticker. Developed in partnership with Mioplanet Technologies and based on the highly successful BBC News Ticker and Associated Press Television Network Ticker, the LX News Ticker is designed to allow students in Liverpool and […]

THE LINGUISTICS BARRIER OF IMMIGRATION: BREAKING SOCIAL SEGREGATION ALONG LINES OF LANGUAGE

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 […]

REVIEW: WE ARE SCIENTISTS – BRAIN THRUST MASTERY

Chris Selman
It’s clear from the opening seconds of this new album that WAS have changed their direction – the straightforward indie pop of their debut has been dropped in favour of epic, electronic soundscapes. However, their new direction seems a touch confused, with the band taking in as many different genres as possible, chopping […]

REVIEW: SEMI-PRO

Jack Watson
Having starred in many of the comic gems of years past, such as Old School, Anchorman and more recently, Blades of Glory there is a good case for Will Ferrell being crowned king of noughties comedy. However, his latest offering, Semi-Pro is considerably weaker than previous efforts.
Obscure as ever, the plot follows aging […]

LET’S END THE SEX TRADE

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 […]

ADVERTISE TO OVER 60,000 STUDENTS

With the summer quickly approaching, make sure you don’t miss out on the opportunity to advertise your business to students in Liverpool!
LX News is the only student newspaper in Liverpool, providing you with unrivalled access to a massive student population of over 60,000, across 3 Universities and 2 Colleges. With a print run of […]

LGoS ELECTION RESULTS ANNOUNCED

After two full weeks of campaigning, the results for the Liverpool Guild of Students elections are finally out. With a record turnout of just over 3,000 students (17% of the student population) and a massive increase of 98% on last year’s figures, LX News can now reveal who you have chosen to lead the Guild […]

ELECTION TIME FOR LGoS!

THINGS HEAT UP AS GUILD ELECTION DRAWS NEAR
William Linnegar and James Cree

Nominations have now closed as Liverpool Guild enters its election period. As a membership charity, Liverpool Guild of Students requires a trustee board to represent the students of the University. There are 8 elected positions on the board, 4 part time trustees and 4 […]

GAME 39 - OUR CITY SAYS NO

PROPOSALS FOR 39TH GAME FAIL TO IMPRESS
David Naylor
Last week Richard Scudamore proposed an idea that has caused outrage from various sectors of the footballing world. The proposal was that there should be a 39th game played across the world at the end of every Premier League season to be hosted by the country that bids […]

INTERVIEW: SIMON KAWYCZ

INSIDE THE MIND OF A SPORTS PSYCHOLOGIST
Darren Potter

Simon Kawycz is a sport psychology lecturer at Liverpool Hope University. Alongside his academic responsibilities Simon has been employed in a consultancy capacity to enhance the performance of competitors in a variety of sports including Thai boxing, athletics, hockey, football, rugby and golf. Simon has also been […]

THERE WILL BE BLOOD

DAY-LEWIS IMPRESSES AS TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY PROSPECTOR
Jack Watson

If there is one film this year that is worth viewing for the lead performance alone, ‘There Will Be Blood’ is it. Daniel Day-Lewis is fantastic as Daniel Plainview, a role which will surely be career defining. Harking back to the likes of Orson Welles’ ‘Citizen Kane’ the story […]

FOCUS ON: STEPHEN LANGSTAFF

Chris Baynes
On March 8th this year, Stephen Langstaff will make a little piece of history. By headlining the 1,200 capacity Carling Academy 1 – a stage usually reserved for established acts and playing host the same month to The Fall and Supergrass – the Liverpool-born singer-songwriter will become the first unsigned solo artist to ever […]

HAVE YOU SEEN OUR SCENE?

Chris Selman
It would be a sweeping generalisation to suggest that Liverpool doesn’t have a music scene right now; instead, I argue that there is a lack of coherency that’s currently keeping Liverpool off the musical map.
Can you name a big local band right now, save for The Wombats? What’s so Scouse about them, anyway? […]

FOCUS ON: PAUL WILKES

Chris Selman
Paul Wilkes is a Liverpool-based singer/songwriter who plays a mellow breed of country-tinged acoustic music. “I’ve been on a journey of highs and lows,” he says, citing “Paul McCartney saying I will go far after watching me perform” as one such high. A low point, he suggests, has been recording; “I wanted […]

SK-INTERFACES

MISPLACED EARS, THERMO WALLS AND HOMEGROWN VIRGINITIES
Paul Eccles and Lizzy O’Connor
Modern art can often be quite a stuffy and inaccessible affair, but perhaps not when it includes a wall that changes colour when you put your hands/face/derrière on it. The new sk-interfaces exhibition claims to be ‘exploding borders in art, technology and society’. […]

MY DAD’S INTO DUBSTEP?

James Proctor
I recently had a conversation with my sister who informed me that over the Christmas period she heard my dad and his mate talking highly of a dubstep/garage band called Burial who have subsequently been a big hit on Radio 1 with the track “Archangel”. On more than one occasion as a teenager I […]

DISCARD YOUR PLACARDS

STUDENT PROTESTS, 21ST CENTURY STYLE
Dan Wright
The culture of being a student has changed a great deal over the last forty years. Some things, however, have remained the same: the general lifestyle of sex, drugs, and rock and roll is one of them. Some things have disappeared completely: certain fashion trends are best consigned to […]

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BUDGET 2008 & ITS IMPACT ON YOU
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LGoS COMMITTEE TO EXAMINE HIGHER EDUCATION FUNDING
Other articles at lxnews.co.ukHeader 5 on February 23rd, 2008Header 4 on February 23rd, 2007

ELECTIONS ARE COMING!

Full student unions election coverage will start from Monday, 25th Feb, with our analysis of the Liverpool Guild of Students candidates.
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