Bristol University goes into lockdown with 300 students confined to halls after 40 test positive for Covid By Jack Elsom For Mailonline Published: 12:04 BST, 9 October 2020 | Updated: 12:09 BST, 9 October 2020 Three hundred students at Bristol University have been ordered to self-isolate in their halls after 40 students tested positive. This … Read more
Teenage girl dies after being found unconscious at student halls of residence in Newcastle Medics rushed to Richardson Road where Park View halls are found on Saturday The teenager’s death is not ‘Covid-19 related’, Northumbria Police confirmed Death came days after 800 students tested positive for coronavirus in the city By Jemma Carr For Mailonline Published: … Read more
This is the hilarious moment a student was rescued by firefighters after she got stuck inside her tumble dryer. Rosie Cole, 21, had a few glasses to drink with her housemates when she was dared to get inside the dryer in their shared accommodation. She’d been enjoying Zinfandel wine and honey tequila when their Tuesday … Read more
Manchester Metropolitan University students at two accommodation sites in the city have been instructed to self-isolate for 14 days following a spike in coronavirus cases. The immediate measures have been introduced at the Birley campus and Cambridge Halls after 127 students tested positive. It comes as students trapped in a spate of campus Covid outbreaks have … Read more
Students at the University of Manchester have been filmed throwing an illegal party outside their student halls. Footage recorded at 1am this morning shows a large gathering outside of Owens Park halls in Fallowfield, south Manchester, with one clip captioned: ‘Covid wah?’. Another clip shows a sea of people dancing to music which appears to … Read more
Sports halls and hotel meeting rooms ‘could become makeshift courtrooms’ for family and commercial hearings in bid to get through backlog of 37,000 jury trials at traditional courts Lord Burnett told MPs that venues which are shut could be used for civil cases He hopes crown courts in England and Wales will reopen by end … Read more
Cardiff University has apologised after some students returned to their halls of residence to find their possessions had been thrown away. Students at Cardiff’s Talybont South halls said they were shocked to find many of their kitchen items had been put in the bin. They claimed the university assured them their possessions would be ‘stored safely’ if they chose … Read more
The Italian Army has been brought in to ferry coffins out of Bergamo, Northern Italy, as its morgue and its crematorium struggle to cope with the surge in fatalities from the coronavirus pandemic. Harrowing photos from the town show officers wearing protective hazmat suits as they work to store bodies in churches and halls. It … Read more
The girls didn’t look at me as I tiptoed into their bedroom. Isla and Molly were lying stock-still in their beds, eyes swivelled upwards and covers pulled up under their chins. ‘Morning Daddy,’ said Isla, very quietly indeed, without averting her gaze from the ceiling. Perched directly over their heads like a hairy glove puppet … Read more