Author: Penny Downes

With new students arriving and those in their final years wanting to soak up Bangor’s natural beauty before they leave, keep an eye on this column for all your rambling recommendations. As the nights draw in and the days grow shorter, most of us will experience at least a slight change in mood. Gone are the warm, bright days filled with ice cream and lazy sunbathing, and in rolls the horizontal sleet that accompanies gale-force winds. With this change in atmosphere and a build-up of university assignments, it is vital to brave the chilly Welsh air, layer up and get…

From Snowdonia to wildlife film-making for the BBC: Bangor alumnus, Hamza Yassin has swapped his walking boots for dancing shoes to dazzle staff and students in the most recent series of Strictly Come Dancing A lot of us may not be the target audience for Hamza’s CBeebies show ‘Let’s Go for a Walk’, but it would be difficult to miss his enigmatic moves on this series of BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing, the popular UK television celebrity dance contest. With a week-four routine full of twirls, lifts and even throws, he bagged the highest score of the series at 39 from…