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[12 Nov 2009 | Written by Caroline Elvin | No Comment | 1,579 views]
‘Carnage’ hits the City of Canterbury

Pub crawls for first year freshers is condemned in the local and national press
Carnage, the UK’s most well known student night out returned to Canterbury last month. Hundreds of students flocked from bar to bar around the town, just having time for a couple of drinks before being moved on to the next venue.
Carnage is notoriously known to be the night where students get drunk, dress inappropriately and disrupt the town. After the media have been disgusted by how students have acted on Carnage in recent weeks, the question is …

National News »

[12 Nov 2009 | Written by Lyndsey Carmichael | One Comment | 849 views]
BNP leader appears on BBC’s Question Time

British National Party leader Nick Griffin causes a stir after his appearance on the political debate show

The shocking appearance of Nick Griffin, leader of the BNP, caused quite a stir amongst the audience and viewers of Question Time (22nd October, 2009). Although Question Time deals with the current and controversial affairs in politics, rarely have I seen this programme ignite such a nationwide debate. Had the BBC decided to bring him on in order to increase their audience? The show attracted three times more viewers at 7.8 million. The BBC’s …

Editorial, Headline »

[12 Nov 2009 | Written by Sam Francis and Jamie Harris | No Comment | 659 views]
A welcome from the new editors

Hello and welcome to this edition of Unified. We are the newly appointed editors, Jamie Harris and Sam Francis. We are both second year journalism students so this is a fantastic opportunity for us. We hope that we have brought a new edge and direction to the newspaper with our dedicated team of writers.