Indulge Impact’s Sports Editors by having a go at their special edition Varsity themed brain-teaser and enjoy another of Jean-Luc Bragard’s notorious Numerical Bonanzas…
Allnutt’s Nut to Crack:
Which Nottingham Uni team has been the most successful in Varsity?
(Answer to be revealed at a later date)
Bragard’s Numerical Bonanza:
9017 - Number of pounds raised in the [...]

The charity chosen to benefit from the 2010 Varsity series is CRY (Cardiac Risk in the Young). AU officer, Alex Hingley, explains that the charity has been chosen because “it is close to the hearts of those at the University”. Neil Desai, a talented sportsman and first class Law student from The University of Nottingham, [...]

Amid the flurry of activity in the series build-up, Impact’s Hattie Hamilton managed to catch up with AU Officer, Alex Hingley for a quick insight into her thoughts for the series.
Tell us a bit about this year’s charity…
This year the 2010 Varsity charity is CRY (Cardiac Risk in the Young). CRY was chosen as the [...]

This January Moscow City Ballet, one of Russia’s most renowned ballet companies, dominated the Theatre Royal, leaving the audience in absolute awe after performing an enchanting version of Sleeping Beauty.
The energy of the dancers on stage was amplified by the incredibly talented musicians of the Moscow Ballet Orchestra. As the curtains opened a procession of [...]

Perhaps art is not usually associated with common sense, yet Pictures by the American E. J. Bellocq, Diane Arbus or Joel-Peter Witkin are astonishing in their disavowal of hypocrisy and beauty. A transgression from comon sense in art only defies basic human and moral attitudes. What these artists do is to break free from the [...]

The collection of art is somewhat deceptive. The stark first gallery offers a minimalist display of photographs from Japanese artist Tomoko Yoneda whose series, at first glance, could easily be someone’s holiday snaps: cute, coy couples on a culture trip around Japan and Korea, fall over themselves with self-congratulation. However, on closer inspection there is [...]

We’re all familiar with the Jocks and Cheerleaders formula from countless American teen movies, but this weekend will see the cliché become a reality in Nottingham at the ground of the Harvey Hadden stadium.
This Sunday sees the arrival of the newest fixture on the Varsity Calendar when the newly formed Nottingham University Outlaws take on [...]

Back room changes dominated the start of Outlaws preseason. Head Coach, Simon Dale stepped down to concentrate his time on his wife’s pregnancy but the vacancy was quickly filled by Defensive Co-ordinator Chris Davies.

The Varsity series is upon us again and doesn’t it feel like only yesterday that our bold, peroxide-topped chap was dutifully stripping off, vaulting the barriers and running victoriously onto the pitch at Meadow Lane, all in support of his beloved University Rugby side? With the highlight of the sporting year upon us, it means [...]

Over the next few months Impact magazine will be leading you on a blow-by-blow journey through the highs and lows of the 2010 Varsity series.

This is Impacts Albums of the Decade 2000-2009, all the highs and lows that took us through a century that seems somewhat too long gone to remember. For some of us, we were listening to half of these albums in secondary school, for others a lot later. If you missed any on the list be sure to check them out as they are gems in our eyes.

In between playing arenas across Europe on the Progressive Nations tour with the likes of Dream Theatre and Opeth, psychedelic rock act Bigelf have been playing their first ever headlining shows in the UK. On the second night of their tour, lead singer and keyboardist Damon Fox kindly took the time to talk to Impact [...]

Is romance dead? Valentine’s Day seems merely a commercial holiday designed to make the lonely feel lonelier and the involved feel inadequate; as it looms ever-closer, many an estranged partner and forlorn singleton will be asking themselves this question.
In a way, romance has been doomed since the dawn of time. I would hardly call prehistoric [...]

Review One by Alyce Biddle
Turning up to what I must admit was my first experience of improvised drama I had no idea what to expect. And has it happened neither did the cast. Greeted by a girl who had painted herself green and obviously taken some creative direction from Gollum, I was feeling incredibly uncomfortable [...]