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Breakthrough in search for arthritis cure
14 new genes discovered that can lead to the disease
Staff members pose questions to Dame Nancy
“We will miss the target that’s for certain,” admits Dame Rothwell in Question and Answer session
Cheaper than chips
Frideswide O’Neill offers some frugal tips for your shopping, cooking and eating habits
Manchester food blog round-up
Maddy Hubbard gives us the lowdown on the world of foodie bliss at just the click of a button
MMU first-year wins prize at Manchester Hackathon
Computer Science student Bilawal Hameed won “Best Under 21s Creation” category and £600 for his “Bus Tracker” app
Public vote for best research photos
University of Manchester researchers were asked to enter photos which help to explain their research
Shisha bosses walk out of council meeting
Unimpressed with the council’s refusal to bend the law shisha bar owners leave meeting
Tory MP stoned off campus
Mike Weatherley recieved police escort out of mob scene
MMU student presents manifesto at Brussels
Tehseen Mirza presented the bill to MEPs, which will be voted on in the European Parliament
Tax evasion campaigner urges Starbucks boycott
John Christensen, Director of Tax Justice Network supports direct action against tax-dodging companies
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Fuse FM star wins Best Female at Student Radio Awards
Hattie Pearson set for stardom after bagging prestigious prize
The Manchester Students’ Food Co-operative
Join the veg box scheme to avoid the uniformity over-packaged nightmare of supermarket veg
Tuition fees ‘biggest contributing factor to inflation’
Savings from fee increases “mostly taken up” by extra annual spending created by inflation
Let me tell you about Chorlton
Are you sitting comfortably? Let Ben Walker watalk you through the culinary hot-spots of charming Chorlton
GMP hires apprentices to work for under Minimum Wage
Apprentices will be paid £10,000 a year compared to the National Minimum Wage of around £12,000 a year
MMU students exhibit protest art
‘The Art of Protest: MMUnion Edition’ exhibited student artwork at MMUnion
Students to face random ‘smart drug’ tests?
10% of students in the UK take ‘cognitive enhancing’ drugs
42nd Street makes old-school glamour its own
Helen McCarthy reviews ’42nd Street’ at the Palace Theatre
Women cheat in exams twice as much as men at Manchester
– Student discipline cases up by 70%
– International students make up majority of cases
– Academic Appeals against ‘poor supervision’ up fivefold