Student Summer Sessions
• Students’ Union organise summer activity sessions • Various activities available including sports, days out and geo-caching A new Bangor Students’ Union scheme hopes to keep Bangor students active during the summer months. Summer Sessions, which will launch at the end of term, will consist of a number of different activities which will be available to...
Police investigate suspicious death
North Wales Police are investigating an incident near College Road in which a 50 year old man has died. The man fell from a top floor flat on Prince’s Road on Friday night, and later died after being taken to Ysbyty Gwynedd. The police are treating the death as suspicious and have held three people,...
It’s a kind of magic for Quidditch
The worldwide phenomenon that is the Harry Potter books has inspired people to write music, make videos and now has people taking to their broomsticks and playing Quidditch. Based on the air born game from the books and adapted at an American school by students in 2005, Quidditch is now played at over 300 universities...
RAG Charity Jailbreak 2013 – Two penguins travel around the UK and raise £255
by Emma & Micha At 17:30 on Friday 22rd March 2013, Micha and I set off from Bangor Students Union building on Jailbreak, with the hope of travelling the country for free. We had 30 hours to travel as far as possible away from Bangor with one catch, we weren’t allowed to spend any money....
Semi-finals for Bangor
Bangor’s first time in the semis since 1999 Students from Bangor University have managed to secure a place in the semi-final round of University Challenge. After beating their rivals, Cambridge King’s College, by 195 points to 70 on April 8th, this makes it the first time since 1999 that Bangor team have advanced to the...
Pontio sets up shop in Bangor High Street
The Pontio Company have bought a Bangor high street shop to support their presence within Bangor. This follows the start of the construction of the Pontio project at the bottom of Glanrafon Hill, next to the Main Arts building of the university, with a completion date of May 2014, and the opening time to be...
Science research at Bangor
10% of Welsh farmers illegally killed badgers last year A study involving Dr Paul Cross from Bangor’s SENRGY estimates that one in ten farmers in Wales illegally killed badgers last year. Badger culling has become a hot topic in recent years, with several attempts to introduce widespread culling by government and farmer unions, despite considerable...
Bangor security guard saves man’s life
A local dog walker has thanked the quick thinking of a Bangor security guard for saving his life following a heart attack he suffered whilst walking across the Bangor University football fields. Trevor Roberts, 67, was spotted by security guard Robbie Williams when he collapsed on the football field, before he received vital, emergency first...
Society Girls Do Beer Pong!
This issue I attended a brand new society which has been running ‘underground’ for a while in people’s kitchens and flats, but has since been granted official status by the University – mostly thanks to the VP for Sports and Societies, Ash Kierans. The society is Beer Pong and although for someone like me who...
Bangor triumph at University Challenge
Bangor one match away from semi finals Bangor are in with a chance of reaching the semi finals of University Challenge after defeating Imperial College London on Monday. Bangor beat their competition with an impressive tally of 210-120, their best score so far in the series. If Bangor win their next match, they will have...
Off the wall with Climbing
Bangor hosts their first climbing competition Bangor University Mountaineering Society (BUMS) hosted the first competition in their history at Indy on the 9th of March. Indy is owned and operated on Anglesey by John Ratcliffe. He explained that he is a climber himself in the local region and ‘loves it’, prompting him to open the...
Students encouraged to ‘checklist’ properties
A NEW checklist will help prepare students considering private accommodation. Leading estate and letting agents, PropertyWide.co.uk, have put together the checklist to make sure students don’t sign a contract before realising there’s something wrong with the property. The checklist (left) encourages students to look into the important safety aspects of houses that they may otherwise...
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