
Frenchay’s Best Dressed this week
Holy chic
Despite the recent news that our beloved moored boat Thekla may potentially be closing its doors on us, Frenchay students did not let this falter their sense in fashion. Spotted on campus, here’s a collection of some of the most voguish students that Frenchay had to offer us this week, serving us utter sartorial satisfaction. You’re welcome.
Call us what you want, but ya can’t call us basic.
Charlie Mills, Marketing
On Wednesdays we wear pink
Elle Norman, English Literature
‘A’ for amazin apparel
Lewis Graves, BioMed
He’s defo done this before
Alex Eastland, English Literature
Layla Waites, English Lit & Language
Faux fur dreams
Will, Art Foundation
And I say, hey!
Nikita Heer, Business Events
Akay Aremu, Law
Candid
Martha Mukungurutes, Psychology
Will Morrison, Quantity Surveying
Up the Gas
What a delightful offering of outfits.

UWE’s Bristol Equity programme named best in country
The programme was introduced in 2016 and offers BAME students a chance to leverage leadership and enterprise skills for life after graduation

Report shows over half of UWE students who died by suicide had asked the uni for help
Eight students had filed for extenuating circumstances or re-sat exams

Third year buys sanitary products for everyone out of her loan to help period poverty at UWE
Keep your eye out for free sanitary products around campus

CCTV shows hooligan students egging Frenchay house in ‘racist’ attack
Police are investigating as UWE students are allegedly involved in harassing residents in Cheswick Park

UWE tells trans students ‘we support you’ after backlash over toilet posters
The posters urge students at the university to not challenge people they feel are in the ‘wrong’ bathroom

A UWE student has died by suicide
The university confirms the death of a second year Mental Health nursing student

UWE SU Education VP suspended pending investigation over alleged ‘unauthorised release’ of uni suicide figures
Ayrden Pocock is being investigated following leaked ‘confidential documents’ last November

70 students evacuated after fire in Brecon Court
It took four crews from different fire stations to tackle the fire last night

The Loop is organising a pop-up recreational drug testing service in Stokes Croft this weekend
92 percent of Bristol UWE students have admitted to trying recreational drugs whilst at university

UWE suspends overnight counselling service Nightline
The service was run by volunteers and has been temporarily suspended

UWE accused of lying about student suicide figures
14 students died by suicide in the last eight years

Bristol City Council install bollards in place of sheltered spot used by homeless people
The council say they’ve done this due to reports of antisocial behaviour

Climate change resistance group block Bristol roads armed with samba bands and unicorns
Extinction Rebellion holds peaceful protests across the country

The 71 bus service to Bower Ashton has been severely reduced and they won’t tell us why
An absolute liberty if I do say so myself

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This is the hard scientific proof we needed

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She died in 2019 when filming for the show began

Quiz: Ok, so which iconic Love Island girl are you really?
No, the winter Islanders are not included

Russell Group chief exec says Zoom uni is ‘different but not second best’
I think maybe he means it’s seventh or even eighth best?

Ranked: The TikToker songs most likely to make your ears bleed
One day I was really really really really sad 😿

Bling Empire heirs: This is exactly where all their family money comes from
Oh to have one of these trust funds

Quiz: Pick your Zoom lecture look and we’ll tell you what grade you’ll end up with
Hopefully you’ll virtually impress your course crush!

‘My entire life’s on hold’: Six months on, 2020 grads are still struggling to find jobs
‘I’ve lost a lot of opportunities just because of lockdown’

Rejoice in a new president and these 51 memes about Joe Biden’s inauguration
Yes most of them are of Bernie

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The background of your Zoom call is like a Scooby-Doo chase scene

These 15 tweets are all the evidence you need to crown Olivia Lux the Drag Race winner now
She is the queen of all our hearts

If you’re not watching Bling Empire on Netflix, here are the reasons you really need to
This show is ridiculous and chaotic so I need 10 seasons of it right now please

There’s a petition to include mental health support services in uni rankings
The petition got over 2,000 signatures in its first day

Stephen Bear thinks he’s been charged with voyeurism because he went travelling
‘Do you blame Captain Cook for sailing the seven seas? No you don’t’

Plan a Bridgerton ball and we’ll tell you how posh you really are
Lady Danbury wouldn’t be seen dead eating cheap canapés

How accurate is the cast of The Serpent compared to the real life people?
Knippenberg is exactly the same

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You thought Kevin was topless a lot on the show? Just you wait till you see his Insta

Aberdeen Uni introduces award celebrating the ‘kindness’ of student Emily Drouet
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Every celebrity that will be attending Joe Biden’s inauguration
420Doggface has filmed a segment ffs 💀

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‘He was running one of the largest cyber scams in American history’