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How do I know if I’m deficient in Vitamin D?

If you are deficient in Vitamin D the symptoms are often subtle and non-specific, so it’s difficult to know if they are caused by inadequate Vitamin D or something else.   However it is estimated more than half the UK adult population is deficient in Vitamin D which is why Public Health England recommend all adults supplement […]

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Health Lifestyle

Lockdown and a chronic illness: Looking after your mental health as a chronically ill student during a pandemic

After some bumpy teenage years including an ongoing anxiety battle, starting university in 2016 was the chance for a fresh start. Indeed, my first and second year were incredibly enjoyable. Learning new things, discovering new places, meeting new people. The next chapter of life felt like it was getting started. Career dreams were beginning to […]

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Featured Lifestyle

A Marathon, not a Sprint: Why it’s Ok to Take Things Slow Starting University

Incoming students often have high expectations for their first-year experience, partly down to the glamorisation of student life. What more important part of university is there than the infamous social life? Well, apart from the actual degree of course. Coming from a relatively small town where the cultural epicentre was a Nando’s on the high […]

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Featured Music

US Artist Layke on “Tonight Can’t Be the Last Time” & Never Saying No in her perserverence of Her Dream!

In a world which thrives on labels and conforming to a set of picture-perfect standards, Layke (and her signature icy lavender hair) has created a limitless space through her ground-breaking music that defies societal norms. And now the dream pop songstress has catapulted herself into the ever-evolving pop realm. We caught up with her off the […]

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Featured Lifestyle

Signing off Prematurely as a Year Two Student

When I started university back in September 2018, I never thought I would experience anything like this. The coronavirus pandemic has affected our everyday lives like never before – with the education sector being decimated and the virus majorly disrupting crucial assignments. As a journalism student at the University for the Creative Arts, I have […]

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Lifestyle

What has the Covid-19 crisis taught you about this country?

Written by Emma Tyler – Student Writer In March, the Coronavirus reached global pandemic status and has since lead to an unfamiliar reality that the alarmist press in Britain has labelled ‘the new normal’. The vibrant city of London has become desolate, once bubbling playgrounds have become forbidden territories, and our National Health Service appears […]

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Lifestyle

Graduation And Coronavirus: The Class Of 2020

This Is How University Ends, Not With A Bang, But A Whimper As lockdown loosens, graduates are left picking up the pieces. They were robbed of closure, denied celebration, and now must scramble to secure jobs in an uncertain and to use that ubiquitous word, ‘unprecedented’ climate. Relationships have been tested, and many may not […]

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Lifestyle

Finding Your First Student Home!?

Finding your first student home can be both exciting and demanding. Leaving halls means you are taking the next step into the realities of student adulting, and if you find a home you are happy in – it could be where you spend a lot of your time for the rest of your degree. So […]

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