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Want to interview Eliza Doolittle?

Posted by Ros on October 10, 2010 in News tagged with

End of Term are offering an amazing opportunity for one lucky student to interview Eliza Doolittle on Wednesday 20th October in Glasgow! The lucky student will also be given 2 tickets to the concert later that night and your interview will feature in the next issue of End of Term! If you are a fan of Eliza Doolittle and are available to be at the Classic Grand in Glasgow next Wednesday afternoon (20th October) then drop us an email, ros@end-of-term.co.uk!

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Jilted Generation – how Britain has bankrupted its youth

Posted by Ros on October 10, 2010 in News tagged with

New book, Jilted Generation, by Ed Howker and Shiv Malik is out now and free to those of you who own a mobile phone - including Android handsets (exclusing iPhones). This offer will run until 11th December 2010. Simply text JILTED to 60300 and you will be sent to a download page for the mobile ebook (standard operator charges apply). We all know that for young people DEBTS are getting worse, JOBS are getting scarcer, LIFE is getting tougher. This high-impact polemic answers for the first time the hard questions that have never been properly asked about the future of Britain and its

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Good things come to those who wait… EUSA finally gets online voting

Posted by admin on September 09, 2010 in News tagged with

The enabling motion to allow University of Edinburgh students the opportunity to vote for or against future students association motions online, was passed on Tuesday evening at an extraordinary general meeting held in the south hall of Pollock halls. The motion, which had failed twice already over the past academic year, was voted through by a margin of 9 votes.  Though 87 percent of those in attendance voted in favour, with 357 voters and required quoracy of 300 for the motion to pass, 309 proved enough to secure victory.

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Student tells of “nightmare” mugging by female attacker

Posted by admin on September 09, 2010 in News tagged with

A STUDENT has told of her mugging “nightmare” after a spate of robberies in Edinburgh. Edinburgh University student Alison Hastings, 20, was entering her flat when a hooded woman threatened her with a metal object and stole her handbag. Alison was confronted just yards from the headquarters of Lothian and Borders Police as she made her way home on Sunday night. Yesterday the maths student, from Aberdeen, said: “I reached my flat door and was trying to find my keys, I’d been out shopping and I had my iPod on.

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