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Could you be an au pair this summer?

Get paid to travel, build relationships, and develop your skills by working as an au pair — a definite option for your summer plans

Reading Festival 2016 – A Preview

A brief glimpse at Reading 2016’s headline offerings

Sticking around for the summer?

Manchester has it all… Even a beach!

Manchester 2015: A summary of summer

Here’s a few things you may have missed. Or, if you’re a newcomer: here’s a few things you have always been missing

Festival Guide 2015: Europe

Guide to European festivals of 2015

Festival Guide 2015: UK

The Mancunion’s guide to UK festivals of 2015

How to spend your summer

It’s a little bit ridiculous how much time we get off in the summer months. Kitty Treverton Jones gives you a guide to the variety of things you can do to occupy your time

“My Super Summer in the States”

Dreading being stuck at home for three stifling months? Take a tip from Manchester student Mark Woodward and go stateside, even with little $, by volunteering as a Camp Leader.

Christmas has come early this year: Ho Ho Ho or just No No No?

Beth Slatcher-Greenwood ponders whether the trend to extend the Christmas season ever more is spoiling its novelty

Recipe: Gin and Earl Grey Fizz

Claire Cottis gives insight on how to create the Gin and Earl Grey Fizz, a truly British (…and easy to mix!) cocktail

Summer Dresses for Every Shape

Natalie Proctor advises which summer dresses are best for your body shape

Nine inch nails

Fashion editor Susie Coen tries out Withington salon Hair Lounge

Here comes the sun…

Not sure which style of sunglasses will suit you? Fashion editor Susie Coen is here to help

Opinion: Are music festivals just for Summer?

Sam Bartram considers the role of music festivals outside of Summer

Top 5 Songs… of the Summer.

Ben Glover recalls the top 5 biggest anthems of the summer.

Travel Guide: Barcelona

Beth Currall reports back on her late summer break in Spain’s second largest city.

Beauty: the picks of summer

The best thing about being an intern this summer was certainly the pay cheques. I couldn’t wait to have funds for the whole year; all of the swanky nights out, Taste The Difference meals, maybe even some shiny new textbooks. But did I manage to save any of my hefty balance? Of course not. Aside […]

Summer 2013: A Review

Robbie examines the highs, the lows and the even lower lows of Summer 2013