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Gang stalk and assault student on Oxford Road

The 20-year-old female student was followed for over a mile and assaulted by a gang ‘like animals stalking their prey’

Student witnesses may be key to assault investigation

Appeal for student witnesses after incident outside South nightclub, hosting a Murkage night, linked to man’s death

Liveblog: SU election candidates – question time

Join us for the liveblog of the “question time” hustings for the positions of Campaigns and Education Officers.

‘Lost City’ Pangaea makes loss of £4,000

Slow ticket sales and damages paid to the Union means festival loses money and now has smaller budget for Summer

Exec ignore voters, nix paid Mancunion editor

Sixty-eight per cent of students vote for Mancunion editor to be full-time paid job – but Exec ignore result and remove role as part of cuts to make up for £0.5m deficit

Meh-lection frenzy sweeps Students’ Union Exec

Exec position nominations see lack of interest, even though advertised for people who “fancy earning £16.6k” or “taking a paid year out”

Man in serious condition after car overturns on Oxford Road

Fire services cut two passengers free from overturned Lexus

Withholding graduation due to library fines “breach of consumer law”

The University, which makes over £200,000 a year from library fines alone, has been warned to change its rules and allow students to graduate even with ‘non-academic debt’

Student fights off gun-toting thief on campus: Caught on CCTV

Watch the moment an 18-year-old student fought off an armed 42-year-old who tried to steal his phone

Man dies of suspected overdose at Academy indoor festival

It is believed the man took a quantity of MDMA inside Academy 2

The ‘Bucks Stocked Here: Union in deal with “tax-dodging” chain

The Students’ Union is “aware of claims of tax-dodging” but “do not have a policy in place to boycott” company

RedRum “put lives at stake”

– Fallowfield nightclub’s license revoked after four violent incidents there were ‘covered up’ by staff – Owner of RedRum speaks exclusively to The Mancunion, calls allegations ‘racist’

Graduates’ coffee venture “mugged off” by University

Coffee Cranks Cooperative prohibited from selling ethical coffee from their bicycle on campus after University, Manchester Corridor file objection

Apathetic turnout for Halls Committee elections

Seven out of twelve Owens Park RA positions go uncontested

Elbow singer opens £34m MMU School of Art

Frontman Garvey joined by Cornerhouse CEO on School’s 175th anniversary

‘I’m no crack mayor,’ says Manchester’s Ford

Canadians confused the politics lecturer with the recently disgraced Toronto mayor

Jailbreak is theft, says Virgin

Virgin trains have spoken against charity hitchhike

Jailbreak 2013 teams get to Berlin, Disneyland Paris

– Using no money teams made it to destinations across Europe and the UK – One participant advised ‘don’t go to Scotland’

Careers Service post LAD Bible job opportunity

Media Club take down tweet, apologise

Students’ Union bans The Sun

– Eighteen students vote in favour of ban, two against – Eighty-three per cent of students surveyed by The Mancunion think Exec should spend time on other things, 59 per cent disagree with ban