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UoB to build a statue to honour VC David Eastwood on his retirement

The statue will be 25 feet tall

UoB student finds her ‘long-lost twin’ at uni

Their birthdays are one day apart

University of Birmingham student finds her ‘long-lost twin’ at uni

Their birthdays are one day apart

Harry’s Hot Tubs has finally come to Brum: here’s why you need to rent one right now

Essentially a Fab in your garden

In pictures: The Vale Reclaim the Night protest

Survivors shared their testimonies throughout the night

Students are holding a Reclaim the Night protest tonight on The Vale

It is scheduled for 6pm outside the Shackleton side of the Vale lake

UoB is handing out free personal alarms on campus

There are also several support services at the university for survivors

You can now get 10 years imprisonment for defacing a statue but only five for rape

The Tory government put more focus on punishments for attacking a statue than attacking a woman

Vice Chancellor Sir David Eastwood will not receive bonus in 2020/2021

His base pay will not change

The Duck and Scholar Vale bar is now a walk-in asymptomatic testing site

No booking is required

Only six cases of coronavirus in Selly Oak: It’s time to stop blaming students

70 per cent of students are back in Selly Oak and the cases are at their lowest since September

Vice-Chancellor Sir David Eastwood receives a pay rise and a bonus amid the pandemic

He received a £61k bonus

Birmingham Vice-Chancellor receives a pay rise and a bonus amid the pandemic

He received a £61k bonus

Ranked: The top 10 universities with the highest number of single students

Is it too late to transfer?

Makeshift Birmingham nightclub hosting 150 people is raided by the police

The club contained a DJ, bar and VIP area

‘A fitting memorial to the forgotten pandemic of the 1980s’: an AIDS memorial is coming to Birmingham

‘If it’s not remembered now, we will all be gone’

Vice-Chancellor Sir David Eastwood is retiring

An email is circulating announcing his retirement

Circo is being temporarily closed down due to the third lockdown

They have been unable to open for three months now

50 years ago UoB were providing gay ‘conversion therapy’

The university are now claiming it is an ‘external matter’

Birmingham is officially in Tier 3: Here’s what this means for students

Cases are still too high for the city to have lower restrictions

UoB releases plan for rapid testing site starting next week

Booking slots are available every 10 minutes

The 20 things we miss the most about Fab

Time to relive the thing you miss the most

A pub in Digbeth has been fined £10,000 for having a lock-in

‘I’d be grateful if you put those down guys, because you’re breaking the law’

University to remain open if Birmingham moves into tier three

‘Based on current government advice and the experience in other cities, that at Tier 3 the University will remain open.’

Wii games and drunk Jenga: Here are 10 ways to make your pres of six people not dead

Did someone say drinking games?

Revealed: These UoB students actually reused the used tests they were given

‘It’s shambolic’

‘I remember sitting there in shock’: We spoke to students who were given used test kits

‘We are given them by the council workers who we had trust in to give us the test’

Students in Selly Oak are being given used Covid tests

‘We weren’t given any info on what to do as obviously all the tests had been mixed up’

Birmingham students have accidentally been given used Covid tests

‘We weren’t given any info on what to do as obviously all the tests had been mixed up’

BREAKING: Police cars are blocking off Heeley after bus crash

It crashed through the construction barriers

Birmingham is in tier two according to the new lockdown system

We will no longer be able to socialise in pubs and bars with people outside our household

Email from Tiv gym announces slots being reduced to 45 minutes

£10 fines, shorter slots and midnight bookings for Tiv gym

Rosie’s temporarily shuts down due to new government guidelines

Last night’s Vodbull was cancelled

As Tiv gym slots fill up instantly, people are staying up til 3am to get slots

The demand for a slot is so high that people are being threatened with £10 fines for no-shows

‘Your mask is a muzzle’: Anti-mask protestors march through the Bull Ring

‘No to a muzzle to silence us and add fear’

Someone has been faking their time as a UoB student and it might be the craziest Brumfess we’ve ever seen

‘I got deeper and deeper into the lie’

Exclusive: UoB planning 21st September start date, according to leaked document

‘Buildings to reopen will be phased and prioritised based on key areas of activity’

This UoB student has created an app to help people in isolation

The app allows you to shop for people in your community

Meet the Birmingham student who wrote her diss on Fiat 500 Twitter

‘Sometimes you do just really need a Chinese and a pink gin x’

UoB English exam delayed by an hour after wrong numbers put on desks

400 students were stranded outside the Great Hall

Vote in UoB’s Hottest Single: Heat three

Are they hot or not?

UoB School of Govt sends student’s extenuating circumstances to every third year in the school

The email contained the student’s entire extenuating circumstances form

Guild election night: Introducing your new Guild officers

After weeks of campaigning, the results are in…

We spoke to Kris Ali about why you need to vote in the Guild Elections

If not for the future of the guild, at least do it for the free pizza

Scam email pretends to offer £1,750 grant to Brum students

All you need to do is give all your personal details!

Student chased by teenagers wielding knives up Hubert Road

One teenager has been detained by the police

The best of UoB’s Movember moustaches

It is almost time for the boys to get rid of that Tom Selleck disaster on their upper lip so let’s get generous!

Fist fight at Indie Lounge between locals on Friday night

The man was ‘pinned to the ground’

Two people injured after boys throw fireworks into Kimchi restaurant

Two have suffered injuries

After two UoB students hit in the face with glass bottles, Players refuse to comment

One student lost half a tooth and was on a soft food diet for three months