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Love Island summer applications: How to get on the show, according to ex-Islanders

You only have a 60-second video to convince the producers

The worst things people have attached to a job application instead of their CV

The horror of it

Casa Amor is designed to only manipulate the girls. It’s cruel and needs to stop

It’s a lads holiday for the boys and days of torment for the girls

The winter Love Island web: How the Islanders knew each other before the show

One of them is Anton’s best mate !!!

Hinge questions: The best profile answers to get the most matches

Online dating is tough you guys

These stories about girls getting the ick are literally giving me the ick

‘He once wore bootleg trousers. I hate bootleg trousers’

Inside the winter Love Islanders’ homes: What do their houses really look like?

Rebecca has a beautiful house to match her beautiful face and her beautiful hair

Ranked: The universities with the most students working as sugar babies

The biggest shock here is that York is number seven

Soton’s Most Eligible Bachelorette 2019: Winner revealed!

The surfer has won our hearts

Soton fresher comes home and finds her flat door has been unscrewed and put back upside down

Definitely the most committed prank we’ve seen

Meet Henry Hill: The vibiest SU presidential candidate running in 2019

He’s got red sliders, a Ralphie cap AND he’s single

A teaser for the second Pres Hen campaign video is out and you could call it ‘genius’

The full video will be on YouTube tomorrow

Here are the 13 things I’d do if I was a boy for 24 hours

There’s so much I need to understand

Behold! A SUSU campaign video that is actually a medium-to-large vibe

President Hen has bars, a drone, and wants to build a new gym?!

Drunk fresher floods Mayflower after passing out and leaving tap on

He’s likely to be charged at least £400 for the damages

‘I can eat a whole pizza in under a minute’: Bad Boy Pizza Soc’s Henry Hill is running for SU President

He considers himself ‘the people’s vote’

Southampton’s Cutest Couple 2019 – The winners

‘If we win, I’ll treat her to a pint’ – lucky gal

There’s a new Netflix true crime documentary based in Portswood that is absolutely terrifying

Hannah Foster was kidnapped on Upper Shaftesbury Avenue in 2003

A round up of Soton’s maddest Insta stories since September

Moral of the story: Southampton students are gross

There are only four types of boys at Southampton Uni, but which one are you?

Your time has come lads

There are only four types of girls at Southampton and you’re definitely one of them

If you don’t agree, you’re probs the “Bristol reject” sorry x

The weirdest things that have been spotted in Hartley library this term

Why can’t we just sit down and do our work?

‘The rat family ate our pasta bake’: Soton students share Portswood rat horror stories

You lot have seen some shit

Southampton University is on the brink of a ‘credit crunch’ after borrowing £372 million last year

The University had the highest percentage increase of money borrowed over the last two years

Police appeal for witnesses following sexual assault last Sunday

The attack comes less than a month after a reported rape on an 18-year-old woman near Wessex Lane

Soton’s Maddest Fresher 2018: Winner revealed

“Balls is in my name” – it just makes sense

A 20-year-old woman was sexually assaulted in the city centre on Sunday morning

The attack happened between Asda supermarket and a car park on Portland Terrace

Vote now in the final of Soton’s Maddest Fresher 2018 to crown your winner

Don’t freak out but this is a pretty big deal

Soton’s Maddest Fresher 2018: Heat Three

What an absolute shambles

Soton’s Maddest Fresher: Heat Two

u legendz

Three Soton third years set up ‘Bad Boy Pizza Society’, now…where do I sign up?

Bad boys and pizza…what more could you want?

The Lodge Road sleeper: Who is this mysterious boy found asleep on a brick wall after a night out?

The boys who found him are still desperate to know who he is and be his mate

We taste tested Soton’s favourite Christmas drinks to find out which is best

A lot of very sweet, whipped-cream-topped drinks, we’re going to go throw up now

We spoke to the fresher that got the Switch logo tattooed on his leg

The tattoo also earned him free entry into Switch for the year

Are you Soton’s maddest fresher? Nominations are now OPEN!

Get nominating, you c-r-Azy freshers

Emily Dawes has officially stepped down as Union President

SUSU released a statement on their website this afternoon

While SUSU remain silent about Emily Dawes, they ask students to vote on whether they should start selling meal deals

We may not have a Union president for the rest of the year, but at least we’ll have £3 lunches, right?

‘Don’t trust everything you read’: The real Dennis McNennis comes clean and reveals he wasn’t the Switch Shitter

Meet the four Southampton students who managed to fool us all

Emily Dawes is ‘due back into work’ the day after Remembrance Sunday

That’s this coming Monday

The votes are in: Here’s the new name of Charlie’s Bargain Booze

It’s official

Soton societies campaigning against men’s sexual assault this Movember

As well as men’s mental health, let’s open up the conversation around men’s sexual assault

‘It’s okay to be white’ sign found in Hartley Library

Students are speculating whether the sign is linked to Emily Dawes’ war mural tweet

20 laptops were stolen from unoccupied desks in Hartley last week

Librarians are warning students to take their laptops every time they leave their desks

Vote for Charlie’s Bargain Booze new brand name

Probably the MOST important decision of your university life

Here are Soton freshers’ most tragic sex confessions

What are you lot like…

Soton SU Pres says she wants to ‘paint over’ war memorial mural

The mural was painted in 1916 as a memorial to British universities serving in the great war

36 things you will definitely hear in an all-girls house in third year

By the end of the year you will all be full-time sad girls

Justin Murphy boasts online about stealing from self-checkouts and using ecstasy and weed

Will this man ever stop?

Gather round boys and girls, for I have a tale to tell, but first it’s the Clubbers of the Week!

We’re back… did you make it?

Paedophile who had UK’s worst collection of images avoids jail and keeps place at Southampton

Barry Shaw was previously jailed for six years on paedophile charges

Transphobic stickers found in toilets on campus

The stickers were first reported to the Students’ Union last night

Meet the Charity Shop Boy: The laid-back guy with a wardrobe better than yours

He definitely has a second Instagram for his sub-par photography skills

Southampton Uni launch investigation into professor who compared abortion to necrophilia

Murphy has also been accused of ableist language

How to make the most banging pres playlist

Get the tunes on

Quad Vods, Jesticles and Manzil’s: How to speak fluent ‘Southampton’

You don’t even want to know what the ‘Four Corner Challenge’ is

‘From Hackney to Oxford’: Soton dropout crowdfunds £30k so he can take up place at Oxford Uni

Roy Celaire has raised over £27k after getting a place at Oxford

Meet Love Island’s Jack Fowler in Soton on September 13th

The nation’s favourite, Jack Fowler, will be at the Cattle Steakhouse next Thursday!

I spent two days taking the spiritual psychoactive ‘Ayahuasca’ on a reclusive island

We spoke to someone who travelled thousands of miles to try the psychoactive drug on a secret retreat

Southampton is in the top ten MOST expensive cities to live in for undergraduates

Sorry? Are you sure? My wardrobe grows mould…

FemSoc Catwalk 4 Consent live blog

Following the action of the FemSoc Catwalk, stay tuned…

Bongo’s Bingo is back in Soton!

The craziest bingo game returns to Switch on Saturday 28th April

Snow forecasted for Soton this weekend

The Met Office release another weather warning for this weekend

Southampton UCU reject UUK’s offer and strikes continue this week

No agreement has been made and so lecturers remain on strike

What to do on a snow day

It hasn’t snowed unless I put it on my Insta

Tariq Manzil’s is doing a Valentine’s Day meal special!

Because what’s more romantic than smelling of Bhuna and Garlic Naan?!

Union President Candidate Interview: Emily Dawes

Here’s what she has to say

Union President Candidate Interview: Matt Cowley

Here’s what he had to say

Soton’s Subway do BOGOF Valentine’s Day offer

The perfect pre-V-Day bonk meal!

University of Southampton UCU votes to strike

Further disruption in the university due to unwanted changes made to the pension scheme

Every type of fuck boy you’ll meet as defined by your Soton halls

We’ve all experienced at least one

University of Southampton admits vice-chancellor DID sit on committee awarding him £433,000 pay deal

The university has spent £1.5m on vice-chancellor pay in past three years

Suspected paedophile caught in Portswood after allegedly messaging and trying to meet with a 14-year-old boy

He was caught last week by TRAP

The keenest Christmas supporters found at Soton’s Xmas light switch-on

Is it ever too early?

An ode to Portswood

It’s just the best

What to do when you have a shit flat

For all you confused freshers

The best spots to shag in Hartley Library

New SUSU merch: Hartley library condoms?

It’s time to vote for your favourite smoking area in Southampton!

Are you even a uni student if you don’t become a chain-smoker on a night out?

My week as a vegan convert

February marks the start of the great vegan university challenge so I thought it was about time I turned to the plant-side.

DIY Christmas Hampers for under £20!

Still struggling for Christmas presents? We’ve got you covered

Southampton Halloween costumes

Weve got you covered for a witty emergency idea