Sadness over Hands Music shop closure
Megan White
Kingston’s student musicians have been left distraught after the town’s last music shop went into receivership. A Kingston institution for half a century, Hands Music, just off Market Place in…
March 2016
KU filmmaking student explains what it is like to be the only black girl in a white town
Sofia Russi
THE 2016 Academy Awards drew howls of protest for the lack of diversity – for the second year in a row, no black actors were nominated for any category. The…
Reporting from Syria – Richard Spencer & Yasser al-Hajji
Mauro Orrù
The Telegraph’s Middle East Editor Richard Spencer and Syrian journalist Yasser al-Hajji will host a debate at Kingston University’s Penrhyn Road campus to discuss the challenges of reporting from besieged…
Big Mauling Martial Arts
Tyrone Stewart
Kingston University dominated Surrey in a mixed martial arts tournament at varsity, defeating them by a score of 12-3 at the Surrey Sports Park, Guildford. Victories for Ahmad Dabche and…
KU student ‘smiled and laughed’ as he injured university security guard in hit-and-run
Kayli Olson
A Kingston student was “smiling and laughing” when he injured a university security guard in a hit-and-run last summer, a court heard.
KU students ‘would not smoke cannabis if legalised’, study shows
Karishma Patel
The vast majority of KU students would not consume cannabis even if it were to be legalised, research has revealed.
Government threatens to prosecute students who dodge tuition loan payments
Alexandra Pedersen
The Government has pledged to track and prosecute graduates who fail to pay back their tuition loans. Jo Johnson, the Universities Minister, said that more and more loans were being…
KU pre-drinkers face being breathalysed in new scheme
Joshua O'Neill
Kingston police have warned KU student drinkers that they could face being breathalysed when they enter clubs and pubs in a bid to stop “pre-loading” before a night out. The…
Mowgli returns to the jungle
Calvin Prickett
Late last year, within a small darkened screening room in the bowels of London-based visual effects company MPC’s studio, Iron Man director Jon Favreau invited a handful of journalists to…
Hands music is closing down and I am really upset about it
Hands Music, the last independent music instrument shop in Kingston, closed down a couple of weeks ago, which means the town centre is left without windows filled with guitars one…