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Students are calling on private landlords to stop charging them rent for accommodation they can’t live in after being stranded at home by the latest Covid lockdown. The National Union of Students (NUS) said it was ‘unacceptable’ that no support is being made available for those who travelled home for the holidays and have since … Read more
University students in Manchester have threatened a rent strike after being told to pay up to £3,000 for accommodation even though they cannot return to campus during lockdown. Like students elsewhere in the country, thousands of Manchester students face being stuck at home while being forced to continue paying for university accommodation, even though halls … Read more
Boris Johnson said that the Government would ‘have to look at’ the cost of university fees and accommodation after he plunged England into a third national lockdown last night. Speaking at a Downing Street press conference, the Prime Minister praised students for the sacrifices they had made in staying away from university and learning online but … Read more
Student goes viral with tongue-in-cheek tour of his £151-a-WEEK digs including holes in the roof, a bucket of rancid goop and a hole in the wall Liverpool University student shared a video of his accommodation on TikTok Reveals how there is a hole in the roof that causes a leak and a fridge ‘iceberg’ There … Read more
Poolside bars, revolving restaurants, marbled lobbies and huge indoor swimming pools. These are standard features in posh Western hotels – and, it turns out, in North Korean hotels, too, as a fascinating new book reveals. Hotels of Pyongyang, by author James Scullin and photographer Nicole Reed, takes readers inside the frozen-in-time, yet surprisingly glamorous, hotels … Read more
Drug dealers slip business cards under doors to peddle their wares to students in northeastern university cities where where four young people suffered drug-related fatalities at the weekend. Cards showing how to request banned substances through Instagram were handed out around accommodation for undergraduates at Newcastle University. Furthermore, Whatsapp ‘group chats’ have introduced like-minded strangers … Read more
Thousands of university students across the country are currently holed up in their first year accommodation after reports of coronavirus cases sweeping through halls. Those in Manchester and Glasgow have been hit with restrictions, with some reporting being physically locked in their buildings. Many stuck in lockdown want to go back home to their parents … Read more
Some of the migrants who have been forced to relocate to new accommodation on the Greek island of Lesbos are refusing to move, after a fire destroyed their overcrowded refugee camp. Greece has resettled hundreds of migrants in a temporary new tent facility and hopes to have moved all of them this week, government officials … Read more
A student was left ‘disgusted’ after her university halls threw away ‘everything she owns’ when she wasn’t allowed to return to her accomodation because of Covid-19. Hannah Mullins, from London, who studies graphic design at the University of Brighton, had made an appointment to collect her belongings after she was forced to leave the accommodation at … Read more
Ibiza offers free holiday accommodation for NHS staff to ‘say thank you to those fighting for the lives of our families’ Ibiza’s government is backing initiative Together for Healthcare Heroes Juan Miguel Costa, Ibiza’s tourism councillor, said aim is to compensate ‘those who have looked after us’ One week’s free accommodation will be offered in … Read more