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Katie Ankers

Katie Ankers has written 7 posts for LX News

CASH FOR COURSEWORK

STUDENTS ON SUBMISSION SPENDING SPREE
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 to have [...]

REVIEW: SPACEPORT’S SCI-FI AT THE MOVIES EXHIBITION

NEWEST VISITORS TO THE WIRRAL FROM A GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY
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 comics’ satisfies [...]

REVIEW: FLINT STREET NATIVITY

ADULTS PLAY CHILDREN IN QUIRKY FESTIVE COMEDY
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. This light-hearted [...]

£5 MILLION AWARDED TO UNIVERSITY

UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL TO INVESTIGATE CELL COMMUNICATION
The University of Liverpool’s Centre for Cell Imaging has been awarded a £5 million grant to research into how cells communicate. Professor Mike White, the head of the department, has a group of medical surgeons, biologists, mathematicians and computer scientists all working together on a daily basis and approaching [...]

STUDENTS PROTEST AGAINST FASCIST SPEAKERS

Hundreds of students from universities across the country congregated in Oxford two weeks ago in protest against the decision to invite right wing activists to speak at a debate on the freedom of speech held at the university.
The Oxford Student Union was outvoted by Oxford Union representatives, allowing BNP leader Nick Griffin and widely [...]

THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM

The third and final instalment of the trilogy
The government’s most wanted assassin returns in the third part of Robert Ludlum’s Jason Bourne trilogy. Haunted by a dark and fragmented past, Bourne continues his relentless search to find his true identity. Undeterred by a barrage of bullets and highly trained killers, Bourne moves effortlessly across the [...]

PALESTINIAN STUDENTS UNABLE TO RETURN TO THE UK

Undergraduates stuck after militant action prompts close of Gaza strip borders
Student life has come to a complete standstill for 670 Palestinian undergraduates who are unable to return to their studies abroad, and instead must remain in the sequestered territory of Gaza. It has been 5 months since Israeli officials closed the borders of the Gaza [...]

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