Here are theresults for the First Round of the Regional Elections; Parti Socialiste: 29.5% UMP: 27% Europe Ecologie: 12.5% Front National: 11.7% Front de Gauche: 6.2% Modem: 4% Extreme Gauche: 3.7% Participation: VERY LOW around 46.5% Conclusions: This is the worst score the UMP has ever had. Sarkozy was nowhere to be seen the entire [...]
Bulgaria has begun parliamentary proceedings for staging a referendum on whether public broadcaster Bulgarian National Television (BNT) should continue a special daily news bulletin in Turkish. In a move which resembles the recent ban on Minarets in Switzerland, the Bulgarian Prime Minister, Boiko Borissov, and his ruling party GERB have publicly endorsed the campaign launched [...]
Participants in the Bath Duck Race today may be surprised to learn that the event may not have been all it was quacked up to be. The press release from the University of Bath claims: The ducks will be hurled into the river at Pulteney Bridge with the winner being the first to cross the [...]
While Don Foster MP has been in starring in Attack of the Urban Seagulls Bath Union Council has been debating about the sandwiches they have on offer in their meetings. Students’ Union Policy Resolves: 1. All Students’ Union Meetings, where buffet food is provided, should have a 60% – 40% vegetarian – meat (and fish) [...]
Students from across the country gathered in Wolverhampton Civic Hall at the National Union of Students Extraordinary Conference last week and passed a motion to approve a new constitution. The Conference began with some opening remarks from Wes Streeting, NUS President, and outlined the context and the case for reform. The former President of the [...]
The University has been announced as a finalist in the e-Government National Awards 2008. These awards are intended to highlight Great Britain’s most effective services which improve citizen and business transactions with councils, central government departments and other public sector organisations. Bath University Computing Services put forward a proposal entitled Bath, Drains and Web 2.0 [...]
Ticket prices for the Bright Orange Bus have increased once again this year. Prices increase annually to tie in with inflation and rising fuel prices. From September 1st 2008, a single ticket from the bus station to campus on board the number 18 will increase from £1 to £1.10 and a single from Oldfield Park [...]
HOW WOULD you fancy moving into your accommodation where the paint on the walls is still wet? This is likely to have been the case for many of the ‘lucky’ Woodland Court inhabitants this weekend. Construction delays mean that some First Years may have found their accommodation incomplete on arrival. Woodland Court, the newest accommodation [...]
Two exhibitions, The Bath that Might Have Been and Bath and Beyond will be on display in the Victoria Art Gallery from Saturday.One will show never-before-seen proposed architectural schemes for the city that never came to be, while the other will display 30 new oil paintings celebrating the streets of Bath by Peter ‘Pete the [...]
Bath filmmakers are being challenged to produce 60 second films to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Bath Music Festival.Suited and Booted Studios, Bath Film Festival and Media Art Bath have joined forces to issues the challenge to filmmakers of all ages. All film entries will be compiled into a feature length DVD, to be [...]
