New Sainsbury’s is harming our trade, say shopkeepers
Rikke Nylund
Local businesses could face closure after a decline in revenue since Sainsbury’s local opened on Penrhyn Road, shopkeepers have claimed.
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KU law student recognised in the Queen’s Young Leaders Award
Sophie Parrott
A KU law student has been recognised in the Queen’s Young Leaders Award for her role in bringing back an after-school support programme for young people in the Caribbean.
The best trench coats on a student budget
Melina Pambou Sundfor
Let’s face it, ‘the beast from the east’ might have packed his bags and returned home, but your summer dresses might be trapped in your closet for yet another month…
12 Strong: One too many post 9/11 dramas
Jake Patel
The latest American military action flick, 12 Strong, follows a squad of special forces soldiers who are deployed into Northern Afghanistan, less than two months after the 9/11 terrorist attacks…
Kingston’s Banquet Records ditches plastic
Sarah Tulloch
BANQUET Records has introduced reusable cotton tote bags with their “No More Plastic Bags” campaign.
KU graduate hopes for more after appearance on Survival of the Fittest
Melissa Moody
KU graduate, Georgie Clarke, hopes to kick-start her fashion and television career after appearing on reality television show, Survival of the Fittest.
Kingston students win £1000 in Penguin Random House animation competition
A group of five third-year illustration and animation students at Kingston University have won a competition hosted by book publisher Penguin Random House in December 2017.
Students should receive grants to help them live closer to university, report recommends
Greg Potts
Students from less affluent backgrounds should receive more financial support to stop them having to commute to university, a report from the Sutton Trust released on February 15 recommended.
Are Soundcloud-rappers and emo-hip-hop the reason we are witnessing a Xanax crisis?
Ine Schwebs
KU students explain why millennials are the ‘Xanax generation’.
Shop locally, not in Sainsbury’s
Chains. You see them everywhere you turn. Starbucks, New Look, Boots, they litter the high-streets and entice customers away from the homegrown retail owners right on their doorstep.