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LX NEWS MOVES TO NEXT STEP!
Three months on from our first issue, LX News is now moving to the next step in student publishing, setting the standards for other student newspapers across the country.
Today, we can officially announce that from next issue, LX News will be increasing its print run to 10,000 from our current run of 5,000. We […]
CASH FOR COURSEWORK
STUDENTS ON SUBMISSION SPENDING SPREE
Katie Ankers
University life has been tarnished for hundreds of students across Merseyside who have been found guilty of submitting plagiarised work. Students have been paying thousands of pounds to internet websites to get their degree coursework written for them to ensure that they pass.
The so-called ‘essay mills’ are said […]
COUNTRY BOY
James Proctor
If, like me, you’re a small town country boy, then life at university may be somewhat daunting. I myself am from the town of Penrith in Cumbria. It is a bit of an everywhere and nowhere kind of place. Penrith resembles many towns of its size throughout the country but seems to hold a […]
OH WHAT A CIRCUS, OH WHAT A SHOW!
Oh the hullabaloo. Nothing can stop us now. “Liverpewl, Liverpewl”. We’re European Capital Of Culture! Next, the World!
And all fanned and encouraged by the Merseyside media. Did you ever see such a pathetic display of parochialism in your life?
And local millionaires and celebrity nonentities: what they know about Culture is summed up […]
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
COEN BROTHERS VAMP UP CLASSIC CHASE
Jack Watson
Good, evil; love, hate; life, death; hope, despair; selflessness, greed; fate and the random. If your head is already swimming with just some of the themes which encompass the world of ‘No Country’ then this film may be too disorientating for comfort. Though it has been praised by critics […]
STUDENT SPORT: IS THERE ANY POINT LEFT?
STUDENT SPORT: IS THERE ANY POINT LEFT?
Paul O’Leary
University sport has seen much change in recent years; higher education institutions (HEIs) have invested considerable sums of money towards improving their national sporting status.
This has been done by introducing strategies that have been common place within national governing bodies of sports and government agencies such as Sport […]
OUR TIPS FOR HOUSE-HUNTING
Karla Harrison
House-hunting can be a nightmare at the best of times, but when you’re doing it on your own, for the first time, the idea of it can be almost overwhelming. That’s why LX News has come up with some top tips for all of you out there that are struggling at this very […]
PAST HOUSING HORROR STORIES
Alex King
“We’ve got f*cking rats!” my housemate screamed down his mobile, only to be greeted by a disgusted groan from our landlord. The rats had been, to our knowledge at least, frequenting our kitchen for only a day or two, but their effect on seven fully grown men had been profound. No-one walked around barefoot, […]
SUBSCRIBE TO LX NEWS
We all know how hard it can be to get your hands on an issue of LX News. With only 5,000 copies printed every fortnight and over 60,000 students, each copy is like gold dust, meaning that quite often people will only be able to look at the online version. And if you’re not around […]
SURVEY REVEALS SURPRISING RESULTS
SETANTA SPORTS INVESTIGATE HOW MUCH SPORT IS REALLY ON OUR MINDS
Richard Smith
What level of importance can be attributed to sport in modern society? This is an intriguing question, and one which a new study by Setanta Sports News has given an entirely new outlook to.
According to a recent survey 17% of all UK males and […]
HATTON VS MAYWEATHER
OUR PRE-FIGHT INSIGHTS
Rarely has a fight in recent times had such a huge billing as this one. With the interest in boxing having been on the wane for many years, Ricky ‘The Hitman’ Hatton and Floyd Mayweather have awoken the world to the wonders of the sport once again. With two differing styles, this fight […]
LAUNCH OF ANNUAL STUDENT SPORT SURVEY
SURVEY AIMS TO ENCOURAGE STUDENTS TO TAKE PART IN SPORT
David Naylor
Last week saw the launch of the annual survey on student sport in the UK. Although students have a greater access to sports facilities than the broader population, only 23% carry out the recommended amount of half an hour’s daily exercise. However, 65% believe […]
PROFILE: CHRIS WHELAN
CATCHING UP WITH ONE OF CRICKET’S YOUNG STARS
David Naylor
For those of you who don’t know, Chris Whelan announced himself into the world of cricket at the tender age of 18, making his first class debut for Middlesex county cricket club in 2005. Since then, although the right-arm medium pace bowler has been kept out of […]
SHOPPING - ONLINE VS THE HIGH STREET
WE INVESTIGATE THE BENEFITS OF CHRISTMAS SHOPPING IN CYBERSPACE
Sophie Wilmot and Tamsin Vickers
Welcome to the new age. All your shopping is simply a click away. Thanks to the wonderful creation of online shopping you can now hunt through the collections of your favourite stores from the comfort of your own home.
If it’s perfumes or […]
FESTIVE FANCY DRESS FOR ALL
MERRY-MAKING ON A BUDGET
Katie Brown and Victoria Bates
No matter how hard you try, there’s just no getting away from those Christmas inspired carry-ons, with one (well, two really) main requirements: alcohol and fancy dress. Although these seem like fantastic ideas at first, when you check your bank balance, reality steps in. Well, worry […]
REVIEW: THE DARJEELING LIMITED
WES ANDERSON’S LATEST “NOT EVERYONE’S CUP OF TEA”
Gav Jackson
About as far away from Transformers as it is possible to get, those unprepared for Wes Anderson’s emphasis on style over content will leave this nothing less than perplexed.
“What the fuck is going on” Natalie Portman asks midway through the opening short film. A pertinent question. The […]
REVIEW: CIRCUS AND CHIBUKU
Olivia Bunting and Nicci Cloke
It was a cold, dark Saturday night when hundreds of clubbers braved the elements and descended on the Liverpool Barfly. The reason? Circus. The city’s renowned ‘House Club of the Year’ was celebrating its 50th gig at Barfly’s Masque. The milestone was marked with a residents’ party which included a five […]
REVIEW: SPACEPORT’S SCI-FI AT THE MOVIES EXHIBITION
NEWEST VISITORS TO THE WIRRAL FROM A GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY
Katie Ankers
The science fiction genre has long infiltrated the film industry with phenomenal success. Spaceport’s unique ‘Sci-fi at the Movies’ exhibition allows visitors to explore this fascinating supernatural world. An extensive array of sci-fi trivia questions, chronological film charts and the ‘history of Marvel […]
REVIEW: FLINT STREET NATIVITY
ADULTS PLAY CHILDREN IN QUIRKY FESTIVE COMEDY
Katie Ankers
Tim Frith tells the Christmas story with a twist as adults play children taking part in the Flint Street school play. Characters smile shyly at parents in the audience, forgetting lines, miming, and removing costumes as Frith humorously plays upon the unpredictable nature of children on stage. […]
CULTURE CLUB
Let me throw a few definitions your way. ‘Culture’: intellectual and artistic achievement or expression; ‘culture’: customs of a particular time or people. Liverpool’s prestigious 2008 title possesses a capital ‘C’ with good reason.
I urge you, if only for a short time, to resist popular culture’s homogenised, standardised televisual drivel that breathes inertia into the […]
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