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A term in the life of the SU Exec

Impact caught up with the Students Union Executive Officers to see how they are getting on after their first term at the helm of the SU.  Alex Corck-Adelman (President)  What have you achieved so far this year? The biggest thing that I was handed over and told I’d…

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Tuesday 14th February 2012

The Big Ask – Live

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Tuesday 14th February 2012

Patient Confidentiality Breach in NUH

The Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs the Queen’s Medical Centre (QMC) and Nottingham City Hospital, has admitted that there have been 29 recorded cases of patient confidentiality being breached in the last three years, the worst of any hospital trust in the country. The main offences…

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Sunday 12th February 2012

HMO Legislation Passed by City Council

Nottingham City Council has voted in favour of the ‘Article Four direction’, despite heavy opposition from the University of Nottingham Students’ Union. The article requires landlords to seek planning permission if they wish to convert any house into a House of Multiple Occupation (HMOs), which covers student housing…

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Saturday 11th February 2012

Good News, Bad News – February 2012

 Bad News for Larry of Downing Street Over recent months England has been wading knee-deep through turmoil and calamity, riots and economic crisis – but an even more devastating debacle has arisen. Larry Cameron, resident cat of No. 10 Downing Street, is charged with serious allegations of incompetence…

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Wednesday 8th February 2012

Four SU Referenda Launched

The Students’ Union today launched ‘The Big Ask’, the first SU referenda to take place in nine years. Four questions are being proposed to students, with voting open on the portal from now until 5pm on the 14th of February. On Monday, the ‘Big Debate’ saw the ‘Yes’…

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Wednesday 8th February 2012

Referenda on SU Reform

Four different referenda will be held in February in a series of proposals that the Students’ Union are calling ‘The Big Ask’. The referenda suggest a number of changes to the way that the Union is run, including whether the SU should change their executive structure and decision-making…

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Sunday 5th February 2012

Snow Causes Travel Havoc in Nottingham

The heavy snowfall yesterday brought havoc to Nottingham’s roads, with many taxi firms and buses forced to cancel their services. The Met Office had warned of up to 10cm of snow falling in the county and issued an amber weather warning, but many roads were seemingly ungritted. Emma…

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Saturday 4th February 2012

Cho-ri-zo

One word: chorizo. Cho-ri-zo. That smoky, red sausage to end all sausages (mild innuendo warning). I consider myself a connoisseur of foreign imported meat (and I do not take that title lightly), and of all those I have eaten in my short yet wonderful life, chorizo is king.…

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Thursday 5th January 2012

My ‘Super Noodles’

I have what some would call ‘an obsessive personality’; once I like something, I really like it. One time, I went through a frittata phase where I ate at least one every day for three weeks. Thankfully, I counter this obsessiveness with an equally ridiculous laziness, thus all…

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