There is someone to look up to for everyone, someone to idolise and respect within their community – whether they’re in the spotlight or unsung heroes. The people of Bath Road share their thoughts on who that role model is for them – be it an individual or an organisation. Cheltenham Guardians are a group […]
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Mental Health hero: Steve Richards and the Gloucestershire Nightline
Who do you talk to when you have no one to talk to? For years, that’s been a question without an answer. Steve Richards, of Gloucestershire Nightline, hopes he can help. The Nightline was founded by Steve in late 2021. He had the idea the previous year, after seeing the effect that the pandemic had […]
Student by day, bouncer by night
When going on a night out to bars and clubs you’ll normally come across bouncers on the door and inside the venue. The common misconception or stereotype with them is that they’re big scary people who’ll kick you out if they think you’ve had one too many or if you’re causing a problem. They deal […]
Review: New Student-friendly Italian Restaurant in Town – Franco Manca
Rating: 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 Not only does this restaurant offer affordable prices for students, it’s also a lovely spot to have a homemade Italian dinner. The aroma of freshly prepared pizza dough and margarita sauce drifted over as I opened the door of the newly built Franco Manca in Cheltenham. The buzz of the room struck me […]
Review: If My Wife New I’d Be Dead – An Interesting Delve into the Life of CMAT
Rating: 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 There are so many different artists who conform to the Irish folk genre of music, but none of them have contorted the style of the genre the way CMAT, Ciera Mary-Alice Thompson, has in her most recent album, If My Wife New I’d Be Dead. Thompson has always been an open book when […]
Review: Fable II
Rating: 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 Role-playing games are almost always fantasy based. They’re also almost always set in a world that pre-dates our own, containing all kinds of medieval or ancient weaponry that we would only be able to see in museums. Take The Elder Scrolls, Kingdom Come, or Dark Souls for example. In this review, we’ll be […]
Review: ‘His Dark Materials’ final season is strangely spectacular
Rating: 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 Spoiler warning There was a lot of pressure on the producers of this fantasy epic. As an award winning book series already treasured by its numerous fans, they would need to deliver the vision that we all had when reading the trilogy. And did they deliver? For me, they generally did. Whilst not […]
Review: 2022 Maserati Ghibli Hybrid- the worst way to spend £75k?
Rating: 🌕🌑🌑🌑🌑 What would you expect from the second cheapest Maserati? Italian passion and elegance at a (slightly) lower price? Speed? Beauty? Quality? Well, you’d be wrong. It’s none of those things. The Ghibli was released in 2013 as an attempt for the brand to sell more cars. Immediately, motoring journalists tore it to shreds- they […]
Review: 0151 – Deserving of More Recognition
Rating: 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 0151, The Night Cafe (2019), is an album that has flown under the radar of the vast majority of music enjoyers. The Night Café falls under the Indie and British Rock genres, and whilst many artists under these deserve more recognition, I believe 0151 has enough to please any listener. The album contains […]
Review: Is the iPad Mini 5 still worth it in 2023? – A student’s perspective
Rating: 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 The first iPad mini was unveiled in October 2012 and was a copy of the original iPad just smaller. Since then, Apple have released 5 more generations of the iPad mini. The iPad mini 5 uses the same body shape as the previous generations, with the classic look with Touch ID in the […]










