Judge rules ‘violent and self-harming’ boy, 12, who was forcibly restrained on children’s ward to protect medics from him must be moved to ‘appropriate accommodation’ Mr Justice MacDonald said boy is subjected to chemical and physical restraint The child had hurt nurses and staff and left other patients frightened, judge said At times, he was … Read more
Student accommodation near Westfield is evacuated and sealed off by police after ‘suspicious item’ is found Stratford One student halls in Stratford, east London has been evacuated Comes after a ‘suspicious item’ was found inside the building around 2pm today Witnesses said several ambulances, fire trucks and police cars were at the scene By William … Read more
Universities in Sheffield and Manchester have become the first to scrap student accommodation fees during lockdown – after furious undergraduates threatened ‘rent strikes’ across the UK. The National Union of Students (NUS) has insisted it is ‘unacceptable’ that little support has been made available for those who travelled home for the holidays and have since … Read more
University students in Manchester have threatened a rent strike after being told to pay up to £3,000 for accommodation even though they cannot return to campus during lockdown. Like students elsewhere in the country, thousands of Manchester students face being stuck at home while being forced to continue paying for university accommodation, even though halls … Read more
Boris Johnson said that the Government would ‘have to look at’ the cost of university fees and accommodation after he plunged England into a third national lockdown last night. Speaking at a Downing Street press conference, the Prime Minister praised students for the sacrifices they had made in staying away from university and learning online but … Read more
Student goes viral with tongue-in-cheek tour of his £151-a-week digs including holes in the roof, a bucket of rancid goop and a hole in the wall Liverpool University student shared a video of his accommodation on TikTok Reveals how there is a hole in the roof that causes a leak and a fridge ‘iceberg’ There … Read more
Poolside bars, revolving restaurants, marbled lobbies and huge indoor swimming pools. These are standard features in posh Western hotels – and, it turns out, in North Korean hotels, too, as a fascinating new book reveals. Hotels of Pyongyang, by author James Scullin and photographer Nicole Reed, takes readers inside the frozen-in-time, yet surprisingly glamorous, hotels … Read more
Drug dealers slip business cards under doors to peddle their wares to students in northeastern university cities where where four young people suffered drug-related fatalities at the weekend. Cards showing how to request banned substances through Instagram were handed out around accommodation for undergraduates at Newcastle University. Furthermore, Whatsapp ‘group chats’ have introduced like-minded strangers … Read more
Thousands of university students across the country are currently holed up in their first year accommodation after reports of coronavirus cases sweeping through halls. Those in Manchester and Glasgow have been hit with restrictions, with some reporting being physically locked in their buildings. Many stuck in lockdown want to go back home to their parents … Read more
Some of the migrants who have been forced to relocate to new accommodation on the Greek island of Lesbos are refusing to move, after a fire destroyed their overcrowded refugee camp. Greece has resettled hundreds of migrants in a temporary new tent facility and hopes to have moved all of them this week, government officials … Read more