News, Sport, and Entertainment from the University of Gloucestershire
Our student journalists’ reflections on a picture that tells its own story about lockdown.
Jasmine Ponting remembers working at the Cheltenham Races, just before lockdown Last year in March, I found myself working at Cheltenham Racecourse during their 4-day festival. The decision for the festival to go ahead was highly controversial due to the fact that Coronavirus had already claimed lives in the UK. Three days after the races […]
Darcey Barrett writes on the importance of friendship during lockdown As covid-19 continues to affect our lives, now more than ever we need good company. When loneliness becomes the new norm, you start to appreciate what you once had. For me, that’s my best friend, the girl who’s become my fourth sister. With eight years […]
Emily Wyatt takes a look back at her last trip with her boyfriend before lockdowns begun I never thought a trip to Bristol would be taken for granted, yet here we are 11 months later reminiscing on better times when covid wasn’t on everyone’s minds. I was completely unaware that the weekend of February 13th 2020 […]
Sophia Mccracken reminisces on the times before the first UK lockdown I think the movie must have been Terminator or perhaps Predator, it was one of those Arnold Schwarzegger classics, it got to a scene where there was a crowd of unmasked people all in each others social bubbles, I remember feeling anxious like they […]
Alice Knight explains what it was like attending Greta Thunberg’s first climate change protest in the UK Yesterday marked 300 days since England was thrown into its first national coronavirus lockdown, with the country now in its third. It’s beginning to feel like we’ve been in lockdown for years, so it can be strange to […]
Ulani Seaman discusses the importance of live theatre https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/16/covid-19-prompts-more-cultural-institutions-to-shut-doors As the theatre industry took its final bow on the 16th March, coronavirus had already performed its first month of shows. The deadly virus had its status upgraded from epidemic to pandemic and with that, performers across the UK switched off the lights on their dressing room […]
Phoebe Nott wants people to stop blaming students for everything I was in the queue to get into my local Wetherspoons. It was just before the 2nd lockdown. It was raining, I was wet, with no jacket because I wanted to look cute. We had been waiting outside for 40 minutes but I wasn’t mad, […]
Beathriz Souza takes a moment to appreciate her boyfriend during this difficult time Relationships aren’t easy, especially in a pandemic. On our fourth year of being a couple, my boyfriend and I decided to do lockdown together. Throughout the world, other couples, married and unmarried made the same decision. We were told to brace […]
Jake Hardy takes a look at how covid has changed even the simplest of things: his shopping It was a strange experience entering Lidl for the first time during the lockdown. What normally was a fairly peaceful atmosphere, had become more tense and felt more like a rush to buy your food and leave. Certain […]
Jack Shute recalls attending a Black Lives Matter peaceful protest after lockdown It must be said how important it is to stay at home during lockdown and of course government restrictions must be followed to keep us safe. But what do we do when we witness a major injustice? Well, surely our right to protest […]