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Royal Holloway Students' Union Magazine
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Sports & Societies
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Women’s rugby take on the Spelthorne Santa Sprint

8.20am. It’s the first, cold Sunday morning of December and RHUL Women’s Rugby are standing at the bus stop in full force ready for the sprint of their life. Soon after arriving in Staines they are positioned on the startin...
by Steph Searle
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Community Action: Strength in Numbers

As part of Community Action’s push to get more students volunteering in the local community, the Men’s and Women’s Rugby Clubs united on Saturday 5October, to help clear cut down a series of trees from the St. Ann’s Hil...
by Jack Smale
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Surfing with Royal Holloway

Read on for a review of this year’s BUCS Surf Competition and to find out more about the upcoming Surf trip to Morocco! The lifestyle of a surfer is one that, as a busy student, is easy to envy. Wouldn’t it be nice to c...
by Elinor Gittins
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News
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Royal Holloway Audience Treated to Tales from Paralympic Legend

The Windsor Auditorium last night played host to a talk from the President of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). Sir Philip Craven MBE, told the audience of his marathon journey from the newly founded Great Britain W...
by Alex Pegler
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Features
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RHUL Climbers find the ‘perfect location’

The sun rose to the early quiet of the Ardéche. The Ardéche river, after which the stunning area in the south of France is named, flows in gurgles of serenity as the world surrounding it awakens. Lying on the beach of the riv...
by Cara Tyndall
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Basketball, Lacross & Netball Charity Tournaments for RAG.

Charity tournaments are the flavour of the month. Within the space of two weeks Royal Holloway students have organized Basketball, Lacrosse and Netball tournaments, raising hundreds of pounds in aid of RAG. Sikh society set the...
by Ben Parfitt
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