News, Sport, and Entertainment from the University of Gloucestershire
There has always been a sense of comfort and excitement in a good old period drama. I guess it must be the escape from the real world we can get, transporting us to another century full of courting, lavish ball gowns and lust. These shows allow us to to spend hours in another world whenever […]
Cheltenham Town manager Michael Duff said that Newport County goalkeeper Tom King scoring from a goal-kick was a “freak incident” in the 1-1 draw between the two sides at the Jonny-Rocks Stadium. Exiles goalkeeper King scored from his own penalty area after just 12 minutes, when his powerful goal-kick took a wicked bounce which caught […]
Embed from Getty Images Brendan Rodgers’ Leicester City swept Chelsea aside with a 2-0 victory at the King Power Stadium, piling even more scrutiny on Frank Lampard who seems to have lost the ability to help his team to a win over tough sides. Goals from midfielders Wilfred Ndidi and James Maddison were enough to […]
Embed from Getty Images The UFC will continue it’s hectic schedule tomorrow night in it’s third stint on Fight Island in Abu Dhabi. Event headliners Michael Chiesa and Neil Magny will clash in the main event, with both men making the welterweight limit of 171 pounds earlier today. Chiesa enters fight week with the momentum […]
Cheltenham-founded fashion brand Superdry has said that they are uncertain about their ability to keep their shops open in 2021 due to the Coronavirus. Superdry’s shares fell 52% in the in the 11 weeks covering the Christmas period up until the 9th of January. But, the silver lining is that online sales were up 13.2% […]
Predictions for the coming week reveal that Storm Christoph will be causing journey delays and power cuts across Gloucestershire. Heavy rain is expected to be seen today at 2 pm, shortly followed by lighter rain for the rest of the day. The storm is predicted to, unfortunately, return even heavier on Wednesday and Thursday. These […]
Embed from Getty Images What happened? India managed to score 329 runs to inflict Australia’s first loss in Brisbane for 33 years and win the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in one of the greatest test cricket series of all time. An Indian victory looked unlikely but big contributions from Shubman Gill (91) and Rishabh Pant (89 not […]
According to latest Government figures, over four million people across the UK have received their first dose of the Coronavirus vaccination. As of today, those over the age of 70 are eligible for the vaccine, alongside healthcare workers and those clinically extremely vulnerable. Despite this, the UK currently has the highest number of Coronavirus cases […]
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 […]