• SHAG Week: What is it?

    Sexual Health Awareness & Guidance Week is a campaign run nationally by many SU’s which focuses primarily on the promotion of good sexual health practices. “young people are more likely to be diagnosed with an STI than older age groups.” Most of the students we spoke to were not...
  • Rosa’s Recommendation of the Week – Zaap

    Spice up your life and get yourself to Zaap, the best Thai street food restaurant in Nottingham and without a doubt my favourite place for when I need a spicy fix. Even if you don’t like spice, the menu is so vast that this restaurant has something for everyone....
  • Comfort Food – Chicken Pasta Bake

    I can’t promise that it’ll be as good as you mum’s, but this dish is a true winter warmer, perfect for this cold snap.  Ingredients: This recipe makes four servings. 200g pasta 500ml milk 2 rashers bacon 2 carrots 2 tbsp flour 25ml water 2 eggs 10g butter 2...
  • Another Manager Bites the Dust At Meadow Lane

    Yesterday saw the announcement of Harry Kewell’s departure from Notts County, a mere 74 days after he was appointed as a ‘long-term solution’ by chairman Alan Hardy. Kewell was the Magpies’ sixth manager in three years and was brought in to try and change their fortunes after one point...
  • Sam Fender @ Rock City

    Halfway through a sold-out UK tour, rising singer-songwriter Sam Fender stopped in Nottingham for the ninth stage of the tour to play a stunning set of tracks spanning the last two years. “A sound crossed between Nothing But Thieves’ epic arena rock and Hozier’s spine-tingling vocals” Just twelve months ago,...
  • Opera North: The Merry Widow @ Theatre Royal

    As a novice to the Opera, I had a preconceived idea of what the experience would be like and was surprised to arrive and learn that this show was an ‘Operetta’. This is a 19th century term used to describe a light-hearted opera in which not everything is sung....
  • Opera North: Tosca @ Theatre Royal

    Tosca was originally a French play written by Victorien Sardou in the 19th century, later made into an operatic libretto by Italian composer, Puccini. One hundred and eighteen years after Tosca first premiered in Rome, Opera North’s 21st century production in the Theatre Royal, Nottingham, was absolutely phenomenal. “Their voices truly...