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BREAKING: Cellar Door closing down

Popular underground venue to shut after only reopening in 2011

How to turn your private joke into a full-blown media shitstorm

Sometimes just being a bellend for your mates isn’t enough

Can’t wait to leave uni? After one year of living and working in London, you’ll be dead inside

The year immediately after you leave uni and start working in London isn’t glamorous or exciting. It’s a drain on everything that makes you you, a drip on your wrist slowly siphoning out your will to live

From Top-Top to tiaras: Meet the Exeter graduate who’s vying for the Miss England crown

After graduating last summer, Charlotte Giles won the Miss Hampshire beauty pageant and is set to compete in the Miss England finals

Durham’s fashion shows are excellent and everyone else should do them

Russian troops are flooding over Ukrainian borders, hundreds in the Middle East die from drone strikes every week and the political struggle in Venezuela is being totally overlooked by the global media. Here are some pictures of sexually attractive people not wearing much

How screwed am I?: Find out what mark you need to get a 2.1 with our degree calculator

You put in the figures, we’ll do the math(s)

Which Game of Thrones character is your uni?

Season 1-4 spoilers, obvs

6% of Newcastle Uni students have caught an STI

Naughty Newcastle students have been contracting a lot of STI’s – but not as many as Northumbria students

SEX SURVEY: Who has the most STIs?

One in twenty students have caught Chlamydia, but which university has the most?

SEX SURVEY: Who has the most STIs?

Surprisingly, only 6% of Notts students have contracted an STI. Either someone’s telling porky’s or they missed out the whole of Karni…

SEX SURVEY: the results

The numbers are in from The Tab’s sex survey. How naughty are Edinburgh?

SEX SURVEY: Who has the most STIs?

Check out UEA’s place in The Tab’s STI survey!

Don’t be a fool, wrap your tool: 8% of Manchester students have contracted an STI

Manchester claims a respectable 6th place in the STI League while Sussex is crowned the filthiest uni

SEX SURVEY RESULTS: Brookes comes out on top, survey exhibits impressive spread

In numbers of sexual partners, Oxford Brookes has finished first – reportedly everyone else just sighed, rolled over and went to sleep.

SEX SURVEY RESULTS: How many partners?

We reveal how much sex you’ve all been having in comparison to other Universities

SEX SURVEY: average Exeter student has boinked EIGHT people

Uni up in arms (probably) over student sex habit revelations

SEX SURVEY: Cardiff’s results

How do you measure up to Cardiff’s and the nation’s average number of student sexual partners?

SEX SURVEY: how did Bristol fare?

Do Bristol students shag more or less than others?

SEX SURVEY: we’re the second-most frigid students in the country

Despite Spen-dog’s best efforts, our numbers are among the lowest in the UK

SEX SURVEY: The results

The average student has slept with nine people, our survey reveals

SEX SURVEY Results: Notts below par in the sack

The average student has slept with nine people, our survey reveals

SEX SURVEY: The results

The average student has slept with nine people, our survey reveals.

SEX SURVEY: The results

The average Leeds student has slept with 10.7 people, our survey reveals.

SEX SURVEY: The results

The average student has slept with nine people, our survey reveals

Neck and nominate: why the cat’s out of the bag on this age-old uni tradition

Neck and nominate is not new, not clever and definitely not Australian

Neck and nominate: why the cat’s out of the bag on this age-old uni tradition

Neck and nominate is not new, not clever and definitely not Australian

Video: best student boozehounds of 2013

Lacking a gag reflex is the ultimate show of masculinity. Here’s why.

The best student pets of 2013

From kittens and corn snakes to chinchillas and crayfish, we round up the best student pets of the year

Vote: what is the ultimate Christmas song?

In the distant dawn age before Simon Cowell started shoehorning his shite into the Crimbo chants, there actually used to be some festive bangers. But which is the best? (Now with no Michael Bublé!)

Fresher loses bet and travels to Edinburgh and back in a day (with a detour)

900 miles, 27 hours, 5 hockey clubs and 1 kidnapped Aussie: ‘Edinburgh Fives’ is back with a vengeance

Video: first XI hockey keeper on the way to Edinburgh after losing fives

Aussie fresher loses annual Edinburgh Fives…he got the 6.22 from St. Davids this morning

Pride and Seek: My Brighton Gay-cation

Brightonian Matt McDonald frequents the gay capital’s LGBT-fest.

Rain Stops Play On Ashes Cricket 2013

Video game featuring EUMCC to be released in November.

Surviving Post-Graduation Blues

Being a graduate is rubbish because now you have to act like a grown-up. Here’s how to deal with it.

11 Reasons Why Grad Ball Was A Bit Shit

Looking back on why Saturday night wasn’t the fairytale ending we’d dreamed of.

BUCS Sportswoman of the Year: Reed All About It

Exeter fly-half named best in country.

“Do I feel this strongly about children’s names…? No”

The Tab chats with viral sensation, Exeter graduate and certified ‘rent-a-gob’ Katie Hopkins.

‘Do I feel this strongly about children’s names?…no’: We spoke to Exeter grad Katie Hopkins

We chatted to viral sensation, Exeter graduate and certified ‘rent-a-gob’ Katie Hopkins

MORE FUCKING BUILDING

Further excitement from Devon’s most popular construction site.

“Astonishing” – Little Women: The Musical Review

Matt McDonald takes a trip back to the Civil War for Footlights’ summer show.

Get Me To EGB

Details of how to bag yourself a ticket for the Enchanted Garden Ball.

How fucked am I?

Struggling away in the library? Twiddling your thumbs because you’re finished? Afraid of the future and all it holds?
The Tab, yet again, are here to help.

Exeter’s Fittest Lecturer 2013: Nominate Now!

Which lecturer lights your fire? Which prof personifies your perversion? We want to know!

How fucked am I?

Struggling away in the library? Twiddling your thumbs because you’re finished? Afraid of the future and all it holds?
The Tab, yet again, are here to help.

How Fucked Am I?

Struggling away in the library? Twiddling your thumbs because you’re finished? Afraid of the future and all it holds?
The Tab, yet again, are here to help.

How fucked am I?

Struggling away in the library? Twiddling your thumbs because you’re finished? Afraid of the future and all it holds?
The Tab, yet again, are here to help.

How fucked am I?

Struggling away in the library? Twiddling your thumbs because you’re finished? Afraid of the future and all it holds?
The Tab, yet again, are here to help.

How fucked am I?

Struggling away in the library? Twiddling your thumbs because you’re finished? Afraid of the future and all it holds?
The Tab, yet again, are here to help.