According to the latest study by industry experts, propertyforecasts.co.uk, house prices in York are set to increase between 60 and 70% over the next five years. Three York postal areas, including the University’s YO10 district, are predicted to experience one of the ten highest price-increases in the country.
Fresh concerns have been raised over the security of college accommodation after thieves broke into a new block in Alcuin despite the presence of students nearby.
The break-in happened at around 8pm on Friday the 3rd of March, when thieves gained access to the building through a window on the bottom floor and stole electrical items estimated to be worth over a thousand pounds. The victim of the burglary returned to the University after a weekend in London to find his laptop and amplifier missing.
For most people, travelling involves getting your hair braided and washing off your henna tattoo. Peter Moore, the intrepid travel writer, tells Adam Sloan how he prefers to hitchhike in Bosnia and attend dictators’ birthday parties
When most of us go to work, it involves waking up on a cold morning, digging your uniform out from the back of the wardrobe and waiting in the rain for a bus that never seems to come on time. When Peter Moore goes to work, it involves travelling to a far flung corner of the globe and embarking on the kind of adventure that most can only dream of.
The Granny might just be the most unlikely style icon. Yet, if recent trends are anything to go by, Holly Williams explains, it is indeed your aging relative’s wardrobe which will get you most outfit envy from rival fashionistas.
So just how do you pull off the vintage look? Well, anything that’s old, is good. It’s an eclectic sort of fashion trend – you can choose your era, or mix them up.
The scientific briefing with Luke Boulter
They can walk, talk and carry a tray of coffee: the new generation of robotics is here, but how far do they live up to 1970’s sci-fi predictions: are robots set to take over the world, or are we taking giant steps into mechanical servitude?
Ben Toone and Luke Boulter explore the science behind ethical living and propose some first steps
It’s easy to get caught up in the doom and gloom of man’s folly with nature; the increasing risks and freak weather patterns from global warming, the destruction of natural habitats, pollution of the natural world and the extremes of desperate poverty. However, rather than wading through swathes of pessimism, a few minor changes could be all that’s needed to change the world (albeit in a small way, one step at a time).
Nan Flory examines the role of the most infamous and taboo word in the English language. Or tried to until the Evening Press took legal advice, and decided we weren’t able to print the full uncensored word
The word of the moment is currently c***. One need only refer to the March edition of Vogue and its three-page, Deborah Orr feature on it for confirmation. On campus, the Drama Barn production of Electra prominently featured the word and then there is the recent revelation (it was news to me, at least) that innocent little Grape Lane, in all its El Piano, vegetarian glory, used to be called Grope C*** Lane - the red light district apparently. It is a word that everybody needs to tackle at some point or another.
Ah, the Six Nations rugby championship. Who to support? Well, if you think along the same boring lines as my brother, then I ought to be backing England. He rang me the other day, distraught, after they had lost. “But… you support Scotland, don’t you?” I said, confused. This was apparently the wrong response, but I thought it was fair enough: we’ve lived there for the past nine years, and recently, he’s started to affect a Scottish accent. But in rugby, it would seem, Matthew is firmly on the side of the English.
Traditionally, award ceremonies are terribly boring affairs, consisting as they do of the losers simpering (with varying degrees of graciousness) that it’s an honour just to be nominated, and the winners rambling on about the honour of being chosen from such a great selection of nominees.
Despite the affluence of York, shelters for those without a bed for the night are struggling to cope, as Bobby Higson discovered whilst volunteering
If asked to list the first images that come to mind when thinking about York, it’s fair to say poverty, desperation and substance misuse are not top of the list. Instead, we […]
The National Student Drama Festival, or NSDF, is the most prestigious student theatre showcase in Britain. Held annually in Scarborough and now in its 51st year, the week long festival is an opportunity for students to share their work with their peers and with an illustrious audience of theatre practitioners who, almost more importantly, also lead workshops and discussions with attendees.
There is a fair bit of effort involved, but the end result will be miles beyond anything the local takeaways can manage, and at a fraction of the cost.
For one week every year the Vikings return to York, and as Adam Sloan explains, provide a spectacle enough to make a bearded man cry
Living in York, it is almost impossible to escape the city’s ancient, and sometimes bloody, history. This takes on a whole new meaning for one week in February where history buffs like myself break out the chain-mail and crack open the mead for the week long Jorvik Viking Festival, characterised by feasting, fighting, dancing and drinking in the manner of those fierce Scandinavian raiders from across the North sea.
As the brightest night of the Hollywood calendar ends for another year, the main awards came as no surprise, except for one major exception
The biggest and only surprise at this year’s Academy Awards was that a low-budget, low-intake film about racism won Best Picture over a low-budget, low-intake film about gay shepherds which for some reason had the entire U.S.A. talking about gay cowboys. The latter had been named best film of the year at a wide range of ceremonies, from the Baftas to the Golden Globes and the Independent Spirit Awards.
Director: Bennett Miller
With: Philip Seymour Hoffman
Runtime: 114 min
Capote is a nuanced study of one of America’s most intriguing and celebrated authors. Director Bennett Miller explores American writer Truman Capote’s fascination with the brutal murder of a Kansas family by two men in the 1960s.
