• Club Safe Collective Protest For Anti-Spiking Measures

    On Saturday, 30th October, activists from the city and the organising group Club Safe Collective gathered in Old Market Square to protest against the recent spiking incidents in clubs and bars around Nottingham. Amelia Brookes reports on the protest, as women in Nottingham call for greater protection on nights...
  • Nadia Whittome Responds To Spiking Concerns

    This past week there has been a worrying increase in the reports of drink spiking in bars and clubs across Nottingham, most noticeably Pryzm and Rock City. This has led to many people starting to demand legal and political response from the Nottinghamshire authorities to start initiatives that will...
  • Police Make Arrest As Women Report ‘Spiking By Injection’

    A Nottinghamshire police investigation into spiking has led to the arrest of a 20-year-old man after women have reported being spiked by injection in Nottingham nightclubs. ...
  • How Important Are Societies To University Culture?

    It is safe to say that over time, societies have played an integral part in university culture. Developing in some of the earliest universities, the concept of a society has evolved with the changing times. What would have begun as clubs only open to the social elite, societies have...
  • Drinking: Safety Among Students

    On Thursday 31st of January, two students, at two different universities went missing after a night out. Daniel Williams (19) was last seen by his friends leaving the university’s student’s union bar, and Libby Squire (21) was last seen by friends who put her in a taxi after she...
  • Welcome Week with Georgina Pittman

    With Welcome Week fast approaching, nervous and excited students are probably frantically packing the last of their university essentials, while the rest of us are bracing for the storm that is a hoard of newbies to campus. We purchase our club tickets for the opening days commencing on Monday...
  • The Tactical Chunder: Practical Purge or More Damage Than it’s Worth?

    We’ve all been there (or many of us, at least): you’ve overdone it at pre-drinks, peaked too soon. It’s not even 11pm and you feel as if you’re going to die. However, you are not one to let your stomach defeat you, oh no. A dedicated sesh-head to the...