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Loughborough and the surrounding Charnwood area is to move to the ‘Very High’ Tier 3, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has announced. The minister revealed the new Tiers in the House of Commons this morning, with hospitality and all indoor entertainment venues being forced to close in the area. He said that both Leicestershire and Leicester needed to be in Tier 3 ‘to bring cases down’, and thanked those being put into Tier 3 ‘for the sacrifices they are making’. He added that “we must all think of our own responsibilities to keep the virus under control”. The new tier will…
Loughborough students are to be provided with fast-turnaround tests for Covid-19 in the run up to returning home for Christmas. Students on Loughborough’s main campus will be able to book a Covid-19 antigen test, even if they do not have any symptoms, for free of charge from Friday 27th November. The tests are available for students who do not have symptoms of Covid-19, but may wish to know whether they have the virus before returning home for Christmas due to vulnerable family members, travelling on public transport, etc. Students will have received an email on the morning of Tuesday 24th…
In this artcile, returning Label volunteer Leah Langley outlines Marcus Rashford’s campaign and analyses the impact of the free school meal scheme. – Marcus Rashford, the Manchester United and England striker, made headlines earlier this year, but not for the reasons that you might expect. Rashford spearheaded a campaign that led to the government changing their policy to allow 1.3 million children, in England, who are in receipt of free school meal vouchers to be able to claim them during the summer holidays. The campaign picked up much attention after it was revealed, by The Food Foundation, that nearly 200,000…
Label volunteer writer Ada Ughanwa discusses whether gyms should have stayed open during Lockdown 2.0. – Now that a second lockdown has been announced everything has shut once again, including our much-loved places of fitness such as gyms and leisure centres. Some argue that gyms should be open while others agree for it to be shut. Where do we draw a line in this argument? On the one hand, I am a gym user so I completely understand why people would want gyms to be open, it helps us to maintain good physical health as well as mental health relieving…
Weekly Coronavirus cases have slightly decreased on the previous 7 days, with 279 more individuals testing positive in Loughborough – down from 291 from the week before. Of the positive cases confirmed last week across Loughborough, just 63 were located in the Loughborough University area, down from 90 the week before. The news comes after warnings from Mike Sandys, the county council’s director of public health, who has said that Charnwood must bring rates down to around 150 per 100,000 people for the county to return to Tier One post-lockdown. Overall, the town now reports a case rate of 395 per 100,000 people,…
Charnwood Borough Council is in negotiations with the NHS about using its Loughborough offices as a potential vaccination centre. The news follows the announcements from several pharmaceutical companies announcing that they have developed successful vaccines for COVID-19. In a statement released this morning, Charnwood Borough Council confirmed that they were in discussions with the NHS but that the “details are yet to be finalised” and that this is still “only a proposal at this stage.” The Borough Council did state that they “will do anything we can to support the battle against this virus” and has already “supported residents and…
This Thursday at 7:30pm, join us here to see live updates from the first of LSU’s Exec Forum! The Exec Forum is a place where you can give your questions to the LSU Exec and get your voice heard. which The event will be broadcasted live on our LSU Media Facebook page so, be sure to tune in! Featured header image by Christos Alamaniotis.
Warning: This article contains themes of death, violence and discrimination On the 28th November 1998, a transgender woman named Rita Hester was sadly murdered in her own apartment. Her death was given little press coverage at the time and her attacker never found but ever since then, members of the Trans community have sought to commemorate her and other victims of such hate-crimes. As the International Transgender Day of Remembrance (November 20th) is fast approaching, we shall be honouring these lost lives by teaching ourselves about what it means to be transgender. Ultimately aiming to help combat against transphobia and…
LSU CASH’s Workshop Coordinator and volunteer writer, Megan McKone, talks about the social implications of sexual assault and rape. TW – rape and sexual assault. Rape and sexual assault are the only crimes where society blames the victim. Quite often you hear the terms interchangeably and a lot of people do not actually know the difference. Even fewer know that there are two types of sexual assault. Rape is the penetration of the vagina, anus, or mouth by another person’s penis, without consent. Under UK law, this definition states that only a person with a penis can commit rape, whilst anyone: men,…
Volunteer writer Maciek Anielski analyses the results of one of the most contentious elections in recent decades to find out exactly why Joe Biden won The election is over. Biden has won 306 electoral votes to Trump’s 232 and has taken historically Republican states such as Arizona and Georgia with him. Biden ran a decidedly boring campaign. He was rarely seen on the campaign trail, his policy proposals, although more radical than those of candidates before him, paled in comparison to those offered by Bernie Sanders in the Democratic Primaries. He relied on a sense of nostalgia among the US…