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Moment police officers break up fight between students during ‘house party’ at halls of residence under Covid lockdown at Manchester Metropolitan University More than 1,500 at Manchester Met were asked not to leave flats and self-isolate But a video shows police arriving at what appears to be a late-night gathering Residents said youngsters were hosting … Read more
Union demands students ‘trapped in halls’ be allowed to return home from university and study online if they want as Covid outbreaks sweep UK campuses National Union of Students and University and College Union calls for action Bosses warned students left struggling to access food and wellbeing resources It comes after Boris Johnson said students … Read more
Shocking footage shows hundreds of students climbing on top of ping pong tables and raving at a Coventry University accommodation block last night. At least 200 students are thought to have crammed into a common room at Arundel House, close to Coventry University’s main campus, ignoring social distancing guidelines and the rule of six. … Read more
Manchester Metropolitan University students at two accommodation sites in the city have been instructed to self-isolate for 14 days following a spike in coronavirus cases. The immediate measures have been introduced at the Birley campus and Cambridge Halls after 127 students tested positive. It comes as students trapped in a spate of campus Covid outbreaks have … Read more
Students at the University of Manchester have been filmed throwing an illegal party outside their student halls. Footage recorded at 1am this morning shows a large gathering outside of Owens Park halls in Fallowfield, south Manchester, with one clip captioned: ‘Covid wah?’. Another clip shows a sea of people dancing to music which appears to … Read more
Sports halls and hotel meeting rooms ‘could become makeshift courtrooms’ for family and commercial hearings in bid to get through backlog of 37,000 jury trials at traditional courts Lord Burnett told MPs that venues which are shut could be used for civil cases He hopes crown courts in England and Wales will reopen by end … Read more
Cardiff University has apologised after some students returned to their halls of residence to find their possessions had been thrown away. Students at Cardiff’s Talybont South halls said they were shocked to find many of their kitchen items had been put in the bin. They claimed the university assured them their possessions would be ‘stored safely’ if they chose … Read more
The Italian Army has been brought in to ferry coffins out of Bergamo, Northern Italy, as its morgue and its crematorium struggle to cope with the surge in fatalities from the coronavirus pandemic. Harrowing photos from the town show officers wearing protective hazmat suits as they work to store bodies in churches and halls. It … Read more
Yes, says Stacey Halls – one even shaped her entire destiny. Fate or free will? You decide… ‘They can be highly specific and personal, they can be us making sense of what happened that day or they can be our minds trying to sort out bigger problems’ When I was in the last few weeks of … Read more
The girls didn’t look at me as I tiptoed into their bedroom. Isla and Molly were lying stock-still in their beds, eyes swivelled upwards and covers pulled up under their chins. ‘Morning Daddy,’ said Isla, very quietly indeed, without averting her gaze from the ceiling. Perched directly over their heads like a hairy glove puppet … Read more