Author: LSU Media

Returning volunteer Sofia Azcona brings you the ultimate guide to festivals this summer. Sun’s out, birds are chirping and sleeves are getting shorter… It’s no secret we’re in the midst of spring, and summer’s just inches away. More importantly, the season of music festivals will soon be up and running. Music festivals are always a holiday favorite as they’re unforgettable times, spent in good company seeing your favorite musicians perform live. If you’re wanting to attend a festival, there’s an entire buffet of options catering to different genres, locations, atmospheres, and so on. Here’s just a sprinkling of festivals…

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Label and LSUTV bring you updates from this year’s Local Elections, live from the Charnwood count. The elections will decide who runs local authorities across the country, including here in Loughborough, and could be an important test of public opinion for Theresa May, Jeremy Corbyn and the other party leaders. Summary Elections took place in 248 councils yesterday, with 8,425 seats up for grabs and about 25,000 people standing The Conservatives had big losses, with Labour making an overall loss after expecting to make gains – both hit by a Brexit backlash It’s been a great night for the Liberal…

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The Charnwood Borough Council Elections are back, and LSUTV went down to the local count to get the latest on the day’s events. https://youtu.be/HWk-Bx4UzOA Credits Presenter Joshua Gray Camera Christopher Leroux Editor Joshua Gray Executive Producer Tim McGovern LSUTV is the award-winning Student Television Station of Loughborough University. Get involved and join our team of volunteers today! Visit our YouTube Channel and follow us on Twitter, @lsutvonline.

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Returning volunteer Bella Butler discusses different facts and views from the Grand National and it’s aftershocks. Tiger Roll, ridden by Davy Russell, won for the second successive year at the Grand National in Aintree, putting them in the record books by equalising Red Rum’s back-to-back wins from 1974. Despite this momentous achievement, the race was also struck with sorrow after Up For Review became the first horse to be killed since 2012 in the Grand National. He was one of three fatalities across the last two days of the event, causing people to question the ethics of horse racing.…

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Label volunteer, Joshua Gray, finds out about the newest addition to the Loughborough Halls family, Claudia Parsons. Claudia Parsons, Loughborough’s first new hall, since the expansion of the Student Village in the late 2000s, is opening at the start of next year. It will become the second largest hall on Campus, and will be home to 480 undergraduate students – both freshers and returners. Over the last year, the University has started preparation for the expansion to the Student Village, which began with its official naming in June of last year. Claudia Parsons was a student at Loughborough University…

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Volunteer writer, Rachel Curtis, tells us about her favourite makeup and skincare products for this month. We all have our favourite products that we can’t go a day without using. These are my top picks for this month, products I will be repurchasing before they run out (they’re fab and I’ll tell you why). THE BODY SHOP TEA TREE SKIN CLEARING MATTIFYING TONER  This is my skin saviour. It’s perfect to use with a cotton pad whenever your skin feels like it needs a cleanse. I use it when I first wake up, before makeup and my other skincare,…

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Last night, LSUTV brought back two NaSTA wins alongside six places in top-5 shortlists at this years’ National Student Television Association Awards. The big winners for LSUTV of the night went to Match Report’s Live Fight Night coverage, which won the coveted Best Live Broadcast award, and to Dangerously Cheesy, which won Best Animation. Alongside this, LSUTV were commended highly, with shortlist spots in 6 other categories: Joshua Gray for Best On-Screen Talent; Stuff in Luff for Best Comedy; CLASS for Best Light Entertainment; Jack Smith for Best Dramatic Performance; The Sing Off for Best Title Sequence; and The Soapbox for…

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Welcome to Label’s fortnightly news update, bringing you a few headlines from Loughborough, the UK and around the world. Loughborough Wins at NaSTAs LSUTV came back from the National Student Television Awards with two wins and six other shortlists on the night! An amazing haul from our fantastic team this year, with special credit going to Match Report Live: Fight Night and Dangerously Cheesy for their wins against industry-standard competition! Congratulations and thank you to all of our volunteers in LSU Media! Loughborough Wins at Whatuni Student Choice Award Loughborough University won the Whatuni Student Choice Award for Accommodation at the…

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