Has anything positive come from COVID

BY EMILIA EGGAR COVID-19 changed the lives of many people and when we look back on what it changed, we remember all the negatives and forget that some things that came of it were positive. We can very easily forget about any positives that did arise from the pandemic as they get drowned within all […]

Waiting for Help

BY EMILY PAYNE Waiting for Help After an injury most people will attempt to go to A&E however, as many will know, you can’t walk straight in and be seen within the next ten minutes. Not even the next hour. The minimum time patients wait before being seen by a triage nurse is 4 hours […]

The Role of Diet in Recovery

BY ISABEL PARKER-HUMBY Eating Your Way Out of Injury: The Role of Diet in Recovery and Prevention from Sports Injuries  There’s nothing more annoying than taking a break off of sports following an injury. We’ve probably all been there, and as a result have had to miss out on training sessions and matches and then being tasked with spending weeks building our strength and conditioning our muscles to return […]

9/11

BY EMILY DARRELL The Crashes 19 terrorists smuggle boxcutters and knives through security at three east coast airports, they chose to board four early morning flights on planes that were loaded with fuel as they knew it would last the long day ahead. Shortly after take off the planes were taken over control by the […]

Exploring Forensic Science

BY ANNA LEFLEY Blood Tests, Droplet Patterns, DNA, Fingerprinting, Anthropometry & Ballistics Blood Tests Until the twentieth century, it wasn’t even possible to confirm that a suspected blood stain was really blood at all! Paul Uhlenhuth is famous in forensic science for developing the species Precipitin test, also known as the Uhlenhuth Test, which could […]

ROBERT OPPENHEIMER – Destroyer of Worlds

BY PRATHIKA KRISHNAKUMAR Now I am become Death – Destroyer of Worlds The story of  Julius Robert Oppenheimer It’s 2023 – a new year for the release of  cinematic masterpieces including Christopher Nolan’s new movie ; Oppenheimer. This film will be the dramatic retelling of J. Robert Oppenheimer who was an American Physicist that made […]

Student mental health

BY FREYJA WEBSTER What is Mental Health? Mental health is your psychological, social and emotional well-being and can affect how you think,  or act and feel about different situations. Mental health issues can affect how you respond to various situations and other people. It can be present in everyone, no matter what gender or age. […]

Mary Shelley – The Woman Behind Frankenstein

BY TESSA HERDALE When Mary Shelley died in 1851, few mourned her passing. A woman of little friends, disgraced from society, her only close family was her beloved son, Percy Florence, and his wife Jane. And despite the success of her celebrated novel – Frankenstein, at the time of her death she believed herself to […]

What is beauty? Dostoevsky and the chemistry of beauty

BY ALEX LAWRENCE In his book, “The idiot”, Dostoevsky through the character of Prince Myshkin quotes “Beauty will save the world”. Despite seeming drastically over-optimistic at first glance, beauty as a concept may be more prevalent than it seems on the surface. For centuries, the religious doctrines which have shaped our modern world have preached […]

January 2023 Ambulance Strikes

BY HANNAH WATSON On 9th December, GMB Union announced the dates of the strikes for over 10,000 ambulance staff, including paramedics, technicians and call handlers. The three unions, Unison, GMB Union and Unite, are all involved in the strikes across nine trusts in England and Wales. Originally, the strikes were supposed to occur on December […]