Jack Wills, outfitters to the gentry, has forcibly shut down a student run fund-raising organisation that had been hoping to raise £15-20,000 for The Prostate Cancer Charity. Jack Willy had been trading since late January 2011 and had so far raised £1,250.
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The McClay library was evacuated earlier due to a serious sewage leak onto the foyer of the ground floor which resulted in the library being closed for the majority of the day.
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“If to borrow is to take and not return/I have borrowed all my lonesome life…” begins ‘Bedouin Dress’ (the second track on this, Fleet Foxes second offering), “and I can’t, no I can’t get through/the borrowers’ debt is the only regret of my youth.”
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In a highly embarrassing incident for student democracy, the council motions on PRP (Performance Related Pay) and the future of referendums at Queen’s failed to meet the required quota necessary to be passed it has emerged, contrary to what was believed at the time.
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The Royal Wedding may have gifted the majority of the population an extended bank holiday weekend, but it was hard work and ceremonies of a different kind which were to occupy the men and women of the Queen’s University Boat Club. 14 times were the rowers to mount the medal podium, 7 of these on the top spot, across the three days of the British Universities Championships, held at the National Watersports centre in Nottingham.
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Eddie Izzard began a whistlestop tour of the UK in Belfast today in an attempt to garner support for the Yes to AV campaign. The comedian met local campaigners and explained to the gathered press why he believes that the people should vote yes to the alternative vote system on Thursday, May 5.
BY BEN FINCH
After a keenly fought campaign the ‘Queen’s Bench’ team swept to victory in the recent Law Society elections claiming all eight available positions ahead of their rivals, the ‘Justice League’.
BY SEAN ASHFORD