Beer Pressure: Initiations Are Not Funny for Some Freshers If you were out in town last Wednesday there is no doubt you encountered one of the wild "introductory socials", formerly known as initiations. Hard to miss in their outrageous fancy dress, these hordes of freshers from sports teams filled the streets of Bath as they ran from pub to pub downing their drinks in record-breaking time. And ...
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Lights... Camera... Action! A film crew were spotted in Bath last week filming scenes for the next series of the BBC One drama ‘Mistresses’.  The actors and crew were gathered outside Nationw...
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Clotted cream, crumbly pasties and low crime - now what's so bad about all that? I'm a Cornish girl through and through and I have always been very proud of my heritage. Therefore, when, in an economics lecture at the end of last year on ‘Regional Produ...
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Global Observations When I booked my plane tickets to Shanghai this summer, more than a few eyes were on China as the country prepared for the Olympic Games and I read with interest the many and varie...
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Two Veterans and a Less Than Arresting Cop Drama I went to the Odeon cinema in town this Wednesday to watch the new Al Pacino/Robert De Niro film, Righteous Kill. Directed by Josh Avnet (a small-time director better known for pr...
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Chinese Spacewalk Successful The three heroes of China's first attempt at a spacewalk touched down late last month. Their mission was successful (despite a gaffe by the state news agency Xinhua who reported t...
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Bath Rugby Lose Out to Leicester Tigers in Tight Contest An Andrew Higgins brace was not enough to prevent Bath slipping to a 15-19 defeat against Leicester Tigers in their opening EDF Energy Cup game last weekend. Both sides chose to f...
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