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Nicci Cloke

Nicci Cloke has written 6 posts for LX News

TABOO@CHAYA

By Nicci Cloke ⋅ February 4, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

MORE RITZ THAN THE RAZZ?
Tuesday 22nd January saw the launch of new student night ‘Taboo’ at Chaya (formerly The Tea Factory), marketing itself with the somewhat paradoxical title ‘Liverpool’s Classiest Student Night’. Chaya is certainly an attractive venue, its darkened booths, sleek furnishings and beautiful bar staff making it a likely haunt for the avid […]

THE ICE IS RIGHT

By Nicci Cloke ⋅ December 10, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

NEW FESTIVE ATTRACTION FOR CITY CENTRE
St George’s Hall is set to be made into an ice rink ready for Christmas. Its Great Hall will house a 144sq m rink, open from Friday 21st December until Saturday 5th January and closing only for Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day, with visitors enjoying mulled wine […]

THE STUDENT ENTREPRENEUR

By Nicci Cloke ⋅ December 10, 2007 ⋅ One comment

While most of us while away the hours and the pennies, gleaning our biggest insight into the world of business from Dragon’s Den and The Apprentice, some finer specimens of the student body are out having big ideas and big successes.
James Watt and Martin Dickie, who were both students in Edinburgh in 2004, are now […]

IN SEARCH OF CULTURE

By Nicci Cloke ⋅ November 26, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

As ‘Capital of Culture 2008’, an outsider might be forgiven for thinking that we were the most cultured student population going. And we are pretty good: great universities, beautiful galleries, museums, libraries. We are the perfect picture of academia.
But the fact is, those long 7 hours in uni every week are enough ‘intelligent time’ […]

CRACKING THE MAN CODE

By Nicci Cloke ⋅ November 26, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Living in a household of girls for the third year in a row now, I have encountered in my time many species of that beast we know as man. There is of course, the Pretty Faced but Pretty Stupid, the guy whose beautiful face is forever ruined by the permanent sound effect that echoes through […]

BEWILDERED BY BROADBAND?

By Nicci Cloke ⋅ November 26, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Could one website make all the decisions you can’t be bothered to?
When moving into a student house, things you may have taken for granted - internet, tv, phone line - may suddenly perplex you. In a confusing, and frankly, boring process of reading through various companies’ promises (and of course, most importantly, prices), you have […]