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How I actually enjoyed the ending: A How I Met Your Mother retrospective

How I actually enjoyed the ending: A How I Met Your Mother retrospective

As far as bad endings go, How I Met Your Mother’s was doomed since its inception. But why? And what could have saved the show?
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Head to The Lowry with your Friends

Head to The Lowry with your Friends

Friendsical: A Musical Parody stops by The Lowry for the final stop of its UK tour with special guest appearances, including Louise Redknapp
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Horoscopes: Week commencing March 15th

Horoscopes: Week commencing March 15th

Ever wondered which side-character you are, based on your star sign, in Friends? Of course you have!
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Re-defining comfort eating

Re-defining comfort eating

Catrin Stewart looks at the privilege associated with comfort eating and how the consumption of food is fundamentally about more.
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Five hundred friends and no-one to talk to

Five hundred friends and no-one to talk to

It is no mystery that social media has shaped the way we interact. However, new studies have found that online platforms are contributing to relationships becoming increasingly superficial
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To the friendless fresher

To the friendless fresher

There is a lot of pressure to have made friends during your first week at university. Yet, for many the struggle to find friends continues beyond Welcome Week. Isobel Gough takes a look at those pressures, and how to overcome them.
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Striking the right balance

Sometimes it feels like balancing your life at uni with work is impossible and there just aren’t enough hours in the day to do it all… we’re here to help
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DIY: Memories Jar

Keeping track of all your important memories throughout the year, good and bad, can be a really good way to reflect and grow as a person
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Recognising a toxic friendship

Are you having doubts about whether a friend is treating you right? Shannon Winterbone looks at how to determine when a friendship’s become toxic and how you can make it better
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Restaurants For All Occasions

With Valentine’s Day soon, we thought it would be appropriate to offer a roundup of our favourite destinations for first daters, to long term relationships, to groups of friends who want a fun night out
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Festive season shopping got you frazzled?

If Christmas shopping fills you with dread and you’re left wanting to curl up under a blanket at the mere thought of braving the Arndale in December, we have the ultimate guide to avoiding shopping list related stress this year
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Album: White Lies – Friends

White Lies have delivered an 80’s pop inspired record that is commendable, yet unremarkable, says Jacob Hopkins
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Valentine’s gift guide on a budget

Because finding that special something on a student budget is never easy
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Secret Santa gifts for £5; solving the annual painstaking struggle

As much as we love the tradition, Secret Santa gifts are a pain to buy! So here are some ideas to relieve that stress and get you on your way with your Christmas shopping
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Ask Us 20/11

Got a deadline while your new buddies are heading out to hit the town? Fear not, we have the solution!
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I don’t smoke, sorry

Things you only know if you just don’t smoke
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TV made me live a fantasy

Molly Allen considers the impact of TV on our expectations (no, just because you’re not living in a penthouse doesn’t mean that your life’s a failure)
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From the Vault: The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

Stevie Grieves considers the enduring appeal of the 90s sitcom that brought Will Smith to stardom
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You Can’t Handle the Truth! – New Girl

Martin Solibakke thinks that New Girl is the best sitcom this side of Friends.
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Top 5: Wedding Speeches

Andrianna wraps up her top wedding speeches from film and television
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