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Over £1,700 cash stolen from Egham business

More than £1,700 in cash was stolen from an Egham business yesterday after the owner was threatened with a knife. The burglars, both male, forced their way into the North Street business through a back door at around 5am. They woke up the owner and threatened him with a knife, forcing him to open a [...]

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RHUL announces closure of Department of Lactogenics

The College today announced the closure of its Department of Lactogenics, in an announcement that comes shortly after announcements of cuts to the Modern Languages departments. The department, one of the leading in the country, caters for around 600 students and offers BSc Lactogenics, BSc Galactopoiedical Studies and MSc Human Lactoscience. It also boasts a [...]

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Insanity Radio 103.2FM break world record with 100 hour broadcast

A team of three presenters from Insanity Radio 103.2FM have broken a world record by broadcasting continuously for 100 hours. Georgia Fish, Jack Gordon and Chris Smith, all students at Royal Holloway, University of London, finished broadcasting at midday today (Friday 30 March) after surpassing the previous record of 73 hours, set by Kiss FM, [...]

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Emergency GM votes no confidence in Media and Communications Officer-elect

The Media and Communications Officer-elect for the academic year 2012-2013, Jack Gordon, lost a vote of no confidence held at an emergency general meeting tonight. The meeting, attended by 83 students, was held after questions were raised over actions carried out during his time as Head of Web Operations at Insanity Radio. The Union Chair, [...]

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Colours Ball Success

The College’s annual Colours Ball took place last Saturday at the Renaissance London Heathrow Hotel. The event was a sell out as usual, with over 400 students in attendance from the 35 sports clubs that make up RHULSPORT. Men’s Rugby had a particularly good evening with a number of senior players receiving Half & Full [...]


 
 

 
 

New Year, New RAG

2010 promises big things for Royal Holloways RAG team! It’s likely you will have noticed the exciting new logo popping up all over campus, but did you know that on top of this, a fab new team boasts a new RAG Chair, Sponsorsh...
by Claire Marshall
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UCAS Applications Reach Record High Again

UCAS statistics reveal that the number of university applicants have risen by 22.9% this year. The record is broken once again just as university funding chiefs have warned of there being 6,000 fewer places for the up-coming ac...
by Anna Gavronski
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Big Spring Clean a Success

This year’s Big Spring Clean event on Wednesday 24th February saw over 100 volunteers make their way down to Egham, Englefield Green and a number of other villages with the goal of cleaning up the local community. Students un...
by Victoria Metaxas
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Book Club: A Very Short Introduction (series)

These books are, in short, pretty amazing. There are already 200 in the ever expanding series, and they range from history, popular culture, philosophy and, well, even the meaning of life. It would take no more than a couple of...
by Cat Ball
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Book Club: LA Candy (2009)

LA Candy was the debut novel released last year from reality TV show ‘The Hills’ star Lauren Conrad. I find ‘The Hills’ is like marmite, you either love it or you hate it, but this book (in which the main character is a...
by Cat Ball
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Book Club: Two Thirds (1993)

Aliens, UFOs, impossibly intelligent life forms have visited, are visiting, or will visit us… Science geek or not, we all have our own opinions. So, what do you believe? This science fiction novel by David Myers and David Per...
by Cat Ball
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