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Kicking off the New Theatre’s in-house season, Stef Smith’s drama Swallow follows the physical and emotional journeys of three individuals struggling to come to terms with the direction their lives are taking. On the afternoon of the first run, Impact sat down with the cast and crew to discuss...

The UCU industrial action is now approaching its third week of strikes over the proposed changes to teaching staff’s pensions.   The result of the 14-day strike means that students will face cancelled lectures, seminars and tutorials. This has left them questioning whether they deserve compensation for the missed...

The SU LGBT+ Network at the University of Nottingham (UoN) has started a new campaign, ‘My Gender Is Mine’, aimed at “tackling binary thinking and highlighting the gender spectrum.” Emem Essien, one of the campaign officers who is leading this project, sat down with Impact to talk about the...

The second day of campaigning for SU elections has been snowy and windy, but the candidates persevere and are chatting to students around campus. In the unusually quiet Portland building, Impact first catches up with Pete Lendon who is running to be your next SU President. “It’s going really...

The first day of campaigning for the Students’ Union elections has finally approached, but so has the snow. With the heavy snow keeping many students at home, it has been a relatively slow start to the campaigning week. However, at 9am you could still find some candidates and their...

A Nottinghamshire Police report has revealed that Lenton, a popular student area, is among the most dangerous areas in Nottingham, with over 400 crimes reported from September to December 2017. The statistics revealed that 1483 crimes were committed in the area of Dunkirk and Lenton in the period from...

Having recently celebrated their one-year anniversary, four-piece Brown Lion Zoo are relative newcomers to the Nottingham music scene, and yet the lads have already made an indelible mark upon local fans. Armed with an expansive range of lo-fi, melody-driven tunes, the UoN students triumphed at BandSoc’s battle of the...