A Palatinate survey found deep discontent among students regarding the National Union of Students (NUS). Palatinate spoke to Dan Slavin and Joely Charlton, the President and Activities Officer of Durham Students’ Union, and Megan Dunn, President-elect of NUS.
Read moreAt 4am this morning, Labour won the City of Durham constituency, with the Conservatives coming second for the first time since 1997. UKIP came third whilst the Liberal Democrat vote plummeted by over 26% to finish fourth. The Greens finished fifth.
Blackman-Woods refused to comment to Palatinate about Labour’s national performance. The Conservative and Green candidates praised students campaigners for their help.
John Leathley has apologised for his remarks about journalist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown who described them as “racist”, “sexist” and “violent”.
Read more
Here’s what John Leathley, UKIP PPC and Durham student, had to say about journalist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and Green Party leader Natalie Bennett…
Read more
City Safety Group are “not at this stage ruling anything in nor ruling anything out”. The group added their role is “to make the river safe as necessary, not as safe as possible”.
Read moreA Freedom of Information request has revealed Durham University invested millions of pounds, through an investment manager, in defence contractors, petroleum companies and chemical companies in the last quarter of 2014.
Read more
Why has it taken the deaths of three students for action to have been taken?
Read moreTurnout extremely low as Millie Tanner is announced as 2015/16 Students’ Union President. Turnout was from as low as 2% with all but three colleges seeing fewer than 25% of students voting.
Read more
The University and the Students’ Union respond to an attempt by student activists to “occupy” the Palatine Centre on Monday 8th December
Read moreA protest held by Durham students ended early this afternoon after police were called to remove activists from the Palatine Centre.
Read more