Shakedown Festival at Stanmer Park – 17th September, 2011
We lucky Sussex students are already spoilt by our surroundings – a stone’s throw from the sea and surrounded by…
Mayday Parade
Before their gig at Concorde 2, Mayday Parade was previously unchartered territory for me. The band had come straight from…
National Student Pride brings students together
Last weekend, between 29 and 30 April, Brighton welcomed National Student Pride for the third time. The official pre-party was…
Early May Day protest in Brighton leads to arrests
Police revealed that eight people were arrested in early May Day protests in Brighton, East Sussex on Sunday 30 April.…
Ferris wheel to turn on Brighton seafront
Planning permission was given for a 150ft ferris wheel to be erected on Brighton seafront on 27 April. It is…
UCU members strike against pension changes and job cuts
On 22 and 24 March 2011, strikes took place on campus after the University and College Union (UCU) voted early…
Sussex Police reject ‘unjustified’ violence claim at student protest
A report by three academics concluded that Sussex Police used a “disproportionate and unjustified” level of violence against students during…
Sussex medical student charged with murder
A medical student from Brighton has been charged with murder alongside another teenager, Harvinder Singh Shoker. Mundill Kaur Mahil, of…
Squatters in Taj building, Old Steine, ordered to vacate or face eviction
A group of squatters who have taken over the former site of the greengrocers, Taj, at Old Steine, have been…
Interview: Tim Key
Alan Partridge’s on-air sidekick on internet sensation Mid-Morning Matters, resident poet of Charlie Brooker’s Screenwipe and one third of BBC4…
Sussex students get involved in local radio
Students from the University of Sussex are involved in a growing local radio station, Radio Free Brighton (RFB). Former Sussex…
Food for thought: Riddle and Finns
Brighton is a town awash with chains and I’ve found it hard to find a really good place to eat which is…
Brighton no longer UK’s most cost-effective city for students
According to NatWest’s seventh Student Living Index, Brighton is no longer the best university city or town to live in…
Pick of the frock: Cheryl Cole picks Brighton graduate’s dress
Cheryl Cole wore a dress created by University of Brighton graduate Juliette Offenbach in last year’s X Factor series. Her…
Nimmo and the Gauntletts
What better way is there to begin the year, or anything, than with the folky/pop orchestra Nimmo and the Gauntletts…
Review: James Blake – James Blake (Atlas/A&M)
He was an idiosyncratic dubstep producer, getting a bit of a reputation for his hauntingly sparse productions. Then he took…
Stephen Fry awarded honorary doctorate
Stephen Fry was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Sussex Chancellor, Sanjeev Bhaskar, at the winter graduation ceremony…
Vive La France
You’re at the University of Sussex. You’re staying in Brighton, the pop-culture capital of Europe (if not the world), the…
Ani DiFranco thrills crowd at Komedia
Ani diFranco’s musical appearance in our coastal, cool and radical city of Brighton had been long anticipated. On the night…
Brighton bar is forced to close
A popular bar in the centre of Brighton has been ordered to close for a month, after 31 thefts occurred…