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Five Guys is coming to the Arndale Centre

Forget the Olympic parade

Cat Cafe Manchester targeted in suspected arson attack

It happened this morning

Meet Girl Gang, the movement taking over the North

‘The idea of a girl gang is that anyone can become it’

Everything you’ll understand if you grew up in Toronto

Paul the intern

In age-gap relationships, it’s always women who are ridiculed

Gold digger vs toy boy

I’m not ashamed to admit I love Fifth Avenue

You can’t say no to 99p drinks

Owens Park revamp abandoned due to unaffordable costs

Gutted

Stagecoach has brought in Manchester’s own version of an Oyster Card

No more searching for crumpled tickets after a night out

We asked people in the City what they spent their first paycheck on

‘You need more suits than you can imagine’

Queen’s SURGES up three spots on uni ranking table

#1 QUBae

QUB beats Oxford in new university rankings

Unfortunately, we didn’t beat Cambridge

The Yik Yak-ers who made up Carmel street overdose should be ashamed

It’s not a joke or a prank – it’s disgusting

The Fly is holding a Game of Thrones night ahead of season six

Next week’s event is ticketed due to high demand

We are shocked by Trump’s stance on abortion, but yesterday a girl was sentenced on our doorstep

Northern Irish abortion laws are some of the most restrictive in Europe

Woman who carried out ‘DIY abortion’ has been given a three month suspended sentence

She ordered the pills from the internet when was unable to raise enough money to travel to England

Rat seen scuttling around Belfast KFC

More than you’d bargain bucket for

QUB single honours degrees at risk of being cut

Entry requirements are also being raised

Paddy’s chimney-poo culprit has been expelled from QUB

Oh shit

Three Cork students injured in Spain coach crash

The crash killed 13 people

Someone pooed down a Holylands chimney during St Paddy’s

It’s a tradition at this point

Arrests in the Holylands: Riot police and dogs were deployed

One policeman was injured early this morning

Holylands anti-social behaviour officer appointed for St Patrick’s Day

Don’t rock the boat guys

Every single struggle you face being a girl with a boy’s name

‘But what’s it short for?’

Queen’s is in the world’s top 200 universities

QUBae

QUB asks grads to endorse Mandela Hall demolition

They want Queen’s alum to help raise the funds

Student elections were so much better when a pirate was running

No, I don’t want to read your manifesto

Queen’s SWOT society hoping to raise £35k at this year’s fashion show

Tickets are available this week

Queen’s fresher Rebecca Finlay has been nominated for Closer’s blogger mum of the year

She needs your vote

Ashton-under-Lyne has a bad reputation, but we love it anyway

Joe Swash opened our Poundland

Northern Ireland’s Mourne Mountain Range is voted prettiest in the UK

Surprise surprise, GoT was filmed there

New QUB city centre halls are given go ahead by the Council

Remind us why we pay to live in Oak?

Pro-life societies are damaging and have no place at university

They represent everything that’s backward in Ireland

QUB researchers are proposing a new guideline for flag display in Northern Ireland

They can’t be considered intimidating

QUB department to be closed after they hosted the Charlie Hebdo conference last year

The conference was viewed as a security risk

Reconnected: Birthday Prosecco is back at Mandela

‘If you click attending you can have some of my birthday Prosecco’

Mortified student caught watching porn in the McClay

What a wanker

QUB to build two new halls in the city centre

Soz Elms

Netball intervarsities tournament to be held at Queen’s

Ulster won last year

Stop what you’re doing: Connected returns to Mandela on Monday

Does this mean birthday Prosecco is back?

There are 390 ‘sugar babies’ at Queen’s

Love is for poor people, apparently

Everything that ever will or has happened in the girls’ toilets on a night out

Has anyone got a hairbrush I can borrow?

Belfast is the second best capital in EUROPE

Where you at London?

Ulster second year’s Macbook stolen from her car in Stranmillis

The laptop contained all of her uni work

One night stand posted on UUJ student’s Facebook after he left his phone behind

She said he called her a fat slut to his friends

Quiz: How Holylands are you?

Crack open a bottle of bucky and see if you belong on Carmel

I went blind a week before I had to hand in three essays

Doctors don’t know why it happened

Belfast BNOC Mannix McAlister mistaken for Boris Johnson by tourists

His scooter was nowhere to be seen

Meet the Belfast student who went for a swim in a puddle outside Limelight

Aidan O’Neill is on the road to Rio