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UCLan’s Rugby Union club is under investigation after a social in which club members allegedly ran amok in the car park of PopWorld and French kissed a severed pigs head.

Police were called to the venue after reports of club members being naked in public view, bins full of sick and a paddling pool filled with garlic and onions.

Club Chairman Fred Kingdon said: “Everything we did was all under consent; we didn’t force any of the boys to do anything which would be what an initiation is.” He added: “Like any other social, we gave everyone the choice.

It was all under adult consent.”

Although the club are adamant that it was not an initiation, merely a social activity that all members knew about, this would not be the first time a Rugby Union club have been in trouble this year regarding such events, the University of Nottingham banned their side for two months over an initiation ceremony.

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More flats for Moor Park Page 5

Features

Pluto interview The Feeling Page 6

Comment

Calling for a revolution Page 9

Lifestyle

Winter fashion special Page 10

Culture

We review the Arctic Monkeys live Page 15

Sport

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Jess Millington News Editor

The line-up for the Christmas light switch on in Preston city centre has been confirmed.

Thousands of shoppers are expected to flock to the flag market in Preston city centre for the light switch on, on Saturday 16 November at 5:30pm.

Performers will include The Feeling’s frontman Dan Gillespie Sells, Australian pop songstress Gabriella Cilmi and a host of local acts. Fifteen acts are to perform on the Flag Market stage before the lights are turned on around 7.30pm.

Mark Whittle, from Preston Business Improvement District who co-ordinated the lights switch on, said: “We recognise Christmas is one of the most important times of the year for traders and the BID is doing everything it can to ensure we get people in to enjoy Christmas in Preston.”

He added:”The Christmas Lights Switch-On is a hugely important event for the city, not only does it signify the official start of the festive shopping period, but it brings everyone together to celebrate something exciting.”

On the day, the light switch on will be hosted by Glen and Lorna from Real Radio’s breakfast show. Free parking is being provided at the Bus Station car park from 12noon.

Over £110,000 is being invested into the city centre during the run up to Christmas. An ice rink and Christmas markets will be taking place on the flag market.

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The Lancashire Market is set to return to Preston for the annual Christmas markets.

The markets are returning to Preston on Saturday 8 December and Sunday 9 December at Preston’s historic flag market and will be offering gifts, food and drink. High end Christmas gifts and crafts will sit alongside season treats offering the public a change to purchase and sample Lancashire county produce.

Catering for all, over one hundred stalls will be there on the day, including Christmas confectionary, Lancashire Dairy produce, Country Delicatessen,

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bakery, Christmas gift stalls and a refreshment stand making it a great family fun day out.

Family Christmas market entertainment will be provided throughout the festive day, including Santa Clause, Santa’s reindeers, carol singers, Christmas bellringers and more.

Free parking will be available on the day, offered by the city council on the Sunday of the event. The Market Hall car park will be free all day on the Sunday, as well as St Georges Shopping Centre car park, which says it will match any free parking period offered by the Council.

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...continued from Page One. PRESTON Police gave a statement which said: “It was reported a group of men were drinking outside and being rowdy and the manager was spoken to with some words of advice about behaviour but there haven’t been any arrests and there aren’t any further enquiries.”

Following the reports the Students’ Union launched an investigation into the club and suspended them until further notice pending the outcome which could see them being faced with the prospect of de-affiliation from the Union.

They released the following statement “The union is aware of an alleged incident at PopWorld involving a number of UCLan students.

“We are investigating the matter and where it is required we will take the appropriate disciplinary action against the students concerned under the Union’s rules."

After the alleged incident took place, the whole team were given a twenty four hour ban from the town centre and Pop World did not open to the public.

The reported social activity included the boys wearing togas to the club then getting naked and going in pairs to each of six different stations that were set up.

The stations included: drinking a spicy

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drink, apple bobbing in an inflatable pool full of onion and garlic and then French kissing a detached pigs head.

Mr Kingdon said: “We went there thinking we were doing it all within the law but we didn’t think about whether we were abiding by the university’s laws, so we were a bit ignorant to the fact that we could be going against what the university rules are.”

Rugby Union is one of the biggest clubs at UCLan, with more than fifty people signing up each year and on a typical night out, up to thirty members attend.

He continued: “If you know us, you’ll know we all are really nice guys, I know it would be hard on a Wednesday night to see thirty boys and think we’re all nice, but if you speak to us you’ll see we’re harmless.

“We have this thing where if you’re a fresher, you have either a 2nd or 3rd year looking after you so it’s almost like a student advisor.

“We call it Grandsons and Godfathers.

We look after them throughout their first year and throughout their rugby career at the university.”

The club say no one specifically came up with the activities they took part in that night: “It’s been a thing from over the years. People take ideas from other clubs and roll off each other.”

They are adamant that this was not a case of bullying but just ‘lad banter’, although they have admitted it was, on their behalf, ‘a misjudgement of the place and misjudgement of the time.

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Overall we just completely misjudged the situation and got caught’ A club member, who requested anonymity, said: “We all played games, we all enjoyed it, we had fun. I didn’t feel pressured to do anything.

“A few people didn’t take part, no one was harmed. Some police came and we were told to go home.”

Speaking about the punishment facing the club, Mr Kingdom said: “We’re not exactly sure what our punishment is or how severe it will be.

“This is why we’re worried because we’re not sure when we’re going to find out.

“From now until whenever we find out we’re going to be on edge because we came here to get a degree, not play rugby.”

He issued an apology on behalf of the Rugby Union saying: “We didn’t think that we would take the university name or its reputation down but obviously we have and on behalf of the club I’d definitely like to apologise to the university, the police and anyone who has taken offence to this, especially the people who saw it- the people in the flats above.

“If we had the power of hindsight we would definitely do it differently.”

The team has been pulled out of a BUCS Cup fixture which will result in them paying a £300 fine.

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AN initiation is described as the action of admitting someone into a secret or obscure society, mainly a sport, or group, typically with a ritual.

However in the secluded bubble of the student village in university, this has taken on a whole new meaning, with ceremonies including excessive alcohol consumption, nudity and some even go as far as "physical abuse" as part of the initiation rite.

Many of these acts seem to be fuelled by peer pressure with many hopefuls wanting to join the sports team, but are in fear that if they don’t go along with what the seniors in the club say, it might jeopardise their chances of becoming a member.

The latest university to be punished for initiations is The University of Nottingham who are banned from their varsity game next year due to one of the stu-

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dents passed a stool in the sink of university halls.

In 2008, NUS president at the time, Wes Streeting, told BBC News: "We are totally opposed to student initiations.

They put students at serious risk and exclude students who don't want to take part in that binge-drinking culture."

The ceremonies are normally organised by student sport clubs for first-year undergraduates and involve excessive drinking, extreme tasks and following strict orders.

Although many students see initiations as a light-hearted bit of fun, there are more serious cases which have resulted in death. For example, 18 year old Gavin Britton who attended Exeter University, drank himself to death during ‘Pub Golf’ in 2006.

In 2009 students at Cambridge University were asked to swallow a live goldfish and throw it back up without killing it - if the fish didn’t survive punishments would follow.

Initiations are seen as ‘bullying’ and ‘intimidating’ for anyone wanting to join.

LAD CULTURE: STILL PROMINENT IN RUGBY UNION? Tom Greggan News Editor

UCLAN’S Rugby Union team are not alone in creating headlines due to their binge drinking and lad culture.

Scrutiny has increased on lad culture since a recent NUS survey led to calls for a summit on the subject.

But Rugby Union clubs seem to be an area of university life where it’s most prevalent.

It’s understandable that large groups of men, playing a masculine sport should engage in some aspects of lad culture in the dressing room or on the training pitch but when it spills out of these places, problems are caused.

Last month, the Rugby Union club at Nottingham Trent University were banned from their Varsity fixture as part of a wider two month ban when one team member excreted in a sink.

The incident took place during a ‘Father and Sons’ welcome social in Octo-

ber last year and the club has been punished after the university carried out a . disciplinary.

An investigation conducted by Nottingham Trent’s Student Union made reference to alcohol, nudity, coercion and and humiliation process.

Just this week, the Huffington Post reported that a rugby club at Oxford University were banned from competing after organising a ‘free pussy’ event which encouraged students to spike first-year female student’s drinks. One student was also told it was his ‘task’ to bring back a positive pregnancy test.

The event was made public via an email, described as ‘horrific’, ‘deeply offensive’ and ‘repulsive’.

It referred to women ‘quaking in their boots’ and Pembroke College Junior Common Room said of it: “There is very little about the email that suggests any level of respect for the women of Pembroke.”

Similar misogynistic mindsets are clearly predominant at UCLan, as shown in the tweet in the headline.

Pluto approached PopWorld for a statement but they declined to comment.

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A simple search of #uclanrugby found this tweet. The picture is of a female performing oral sex on a man in a UCLan tie.

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PRESTON’S Guild has been shortlisted for a top tourism award.

The Guild has been put forward for the ‘Lancashire Tourism Awards’ visitor event award. This comes after putting on ‘The Best Guild ever’ which attracted over 9,000 people from Preston and further afield.

The Preston guild, which is celebrated every 20 years and took place in 2012, saw a host of events held which brought people to the city. School children, community groups, faith groups, companies and families all join together on the streets to enjoy the event.

The judges nominated The Guild for this title for the Outstanding Contribution to Tourism and the Large Visitor Attraction award of The Harris Museum & Art Gallery.

Councillor Tom Burns, cabinet member for advice services, culture and leisure, said: “For the Guild to be nominated makes perfect sense, every Preston Guild has improved on the last, and this will no doubt continue in the future.

The Lancashire Tourism Awards 2013 will take place on Thursday 7 November at Blackburn Cathedral and will be one of the cathedral’s first major corporate events.

At the event, there will be a drinks reception and a three course meal.

MOTORISTS across Preston will be enjoying free parking in various locations near the city centre over the Christmas holiday period.

Both St George’s Shopping Centre and Fishergate Centre will offer shoppers the possibility to park their cars for free within limited time frames and all throughout the Christmas Lights SwitchOn event.

The free parking initiative belongs to Preston Business Improvement District (BID), which in a letter to the City Council pressed for ensuring free access within the city centre and avoid ‘hemorrhaging visitors to shopping areas outside of the city centre that offer free parking at all times.’

The scheme was first initiated last year and it’s success has prompted BID and Preston City Council to run it again this year.

Mark Whittle from Preston Business Improvement District said: “We have everything anyone could wish for this Christmas, the only missing piece of the jigsaw was complimentary parking, which is now confirmed.”

He added: “We are confident that this will prove popular to residents and visitors from further afield and feedback from businesses within the city centre has been exceptionally positive”.

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The free parking plan will aid local businesses by stimulating demand and will allow the free flow of shoppers and visitors.

The operation of car parks throughout the city normally costs the council £120,000.A further £7,000 in income is expected to be lost through this scheme.

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SPECULATION rumours that Carnage is returning to Preston have this week been confirmed.

Popular student night out ‘Carnage’ is making a comeback to Preston after being banned in previous years as it was deemed too ‘Irresponsible’ and the event is set to go ahead on Sunday 1 December.

With the event being centred around Christmas, students who attend are invited to wear ‘Sexy Santa’ or ‘Erotic Elf’ attire.

Distinctive ‘Carnage’ T shirts can be bought for £8 which grant free entry into the clubs taking part.

Originally branded as a ‘Dangerous Pub Crawl’ Insp Steve Evans, of Preston city centre police said: “These are 18year-old kids, usually coming away from home for the first time, and they are not used to that level of consumption."

However, there is a level of contrversy surrounding the company ‘Carnage’ and they have faced criticism from alcohol abuse campaigners concerned that they promote binge-drinking among young people.

Charlotte Berry, second year contemportary theatre and performance student said: “I’m really looking forward to Carnage coming to Preston” She added: “I know that people are concerned about how much alcohol is involved, but I don’t see how it is much different from any other student night out.”

Carnage is reportedly banned at 17 Student Institutions.

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AN article in the Guardian has said that current second year students may be the unluckiest age group.

If you’re a second year student and were born in or after September 1993, then you wouldn’t be wrong for thinking that you were dealt an unlucky hand.

Throughout your academic life, many things have changed just in time to affect you. From your Education Maintenance Allowance being slashed, to your university fees trebling.

If you were born just a year before, you would only owe tuition fees of £9,000. But instead you will be paying this each year.

And to make matters worse, every year the Secretary of State adjusts the interest rate we will have to pay. This hasn’t made been clear to students, especially at the young, maybe even naïve, age of 17 or 18, when they made the decision to got to university and get a degree.

The current interest rate has been increasing 3% each year, who knows how high some student’s debts will be in the future?

Many of students will admit that they were ‘roped in’ by the claims that they won’t have to begin paying back their debts until they are earning over £21,000. But, were the undergraduates

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told to consider the rise of inflation? The threshold might seem like a good wage now, but by the time they have started an established career, it could seem a lot less.

One thing that UCLan students do get in return for their high tuition fees is the UCLan Advantage Scheme. The peaks involved range from a free portable credit allowance to better global opportunities, but do students really want to pay an extra £18,000 for these benefits?

Alyx Nutting, a Web and Multimedia student said; “The only benefit that I actually use is the credit scheme, and that has been scrapped next year.”

Claire Temple, a coaching student, says that although she will be in more debt in the future, she is glad that she gets a free gym membership and the credits, which she used to pay towards her accommodation.

So, what next for this unlucky band of students? With the current employability problems in Britain, let’s just hope that the sky-high costs of an education will be worth it for a career they love.

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NEW MOOR PARK FLATS Flickr: leeroy09481

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PLANS for two Victorian villas to be converted into apartments overlooking Moor Park has returned to the planning committee.

At a council meeting in August, a proposal was put forward for Numbers 5 and 7 Moor Park, which are currently offices, to be turned into 18 apartments.

Councillors demanded a site visitor to reconsider the plans for the flats and the impact it would have on the grade II listed park at the meeting.

The development would create 14 two bedroom flats and four one bedroomed flats.

One objection was raised at the meeting in August from a local resident who said the removal of access from St Thomas Road will increase parking problems in the area.

Now, the topic has returned for discussion and If the development goes ahead, It will create a car park with 18 parking spaces.

Moor Park is now a conservation area and Preston Rural North councillor, Alexandra Thompson-Ortega, said the plans did not appear in-keeping with the conservation area.

Council officers have recommended the scheme for appoval, saying any

the scheme for approval, saying any conversion of the buildings was better than demolition.

The Preston Historical Society have looked into the buildings. They explored their history of previous residents of both houses number 5 and 7.

1882 No.5 – Resident, Mr. Henry Curwen No.7 – Resident, Mr. Alex Tullis 1917 No.5 – No listing.

No.7 – Mr. Alex, Sec. to Hall, Hale & Co. Ltd. also, Mr, William Hall of same company.

1926 No.5 – Capt. Frank Fenton No.7 – Dr. Robert Harrington MB, BCH, BAO, NUI Physician & Surgeon.

1932 No.5 – Capt. Frank Fenton No.7 – Mri. William Smith 1936 No.5 – Mr. J. Worden No.7 – Mr. W. smith (Dr. Robert Harrington has now removed to Grove House).

1948 No.5 – Mr. H. Parker No.7 – Mr. Arthur Isaacson MB, BCH, MRCP. Surgeries at No.7 (his residence), 51 Longridge Road and 119 Ribbleton Ave. Source : Blog Preston

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PRESTON’S Flag Market will once again be transformed into a Winter Wonderland when an outdoor ice rink is opened on December 14, running for three weeks.

The ice rink will be open four days a week until 9pm. on Wednesday and Thursdays, in conjunction with late night shopping, it will be open until 10pm. On Sundays the rink will close earlier, at 7pm.

Anyone wanting to try their skills on the ice will be able to skate for up to 45 minutes for just £6 including skate hire.

Councillor Tom Burns, Cabinet Member for Leisure and Culture said: “The Flag Market transformed into a Winter Wonderland will add to the Christmas atmosphere in the city centre.

“Working with the Business Improvement District (BID) we have put together a great city centre offer which will give shoppers a great experience this Christmas.”

The Flag Market will also host a variety of traditional log cabins which will serve festive food and drink while you wait, as well as a selection of children’s fairground rides.

Eva Grey, a third year student at UCLan, commented: "Bringing the outdoor ice rink back to Preston is a brilliant idea. I'm definitely planning to go ice skating and I'm sure others are too. It will be something fun and different to do for people of all ages."

Vice chair of the Snowsports team here at UCLan and also a third year student, Emma Farrington, also added: “I think it’s a great idea and I would definitely go to it.”

HOST AN EXCHANGE STUDENT Anne Becker News Reporter

WOULD you like to experience more of British culture and meet new people?

Why not spend a day, weekend or Christmas in a British home with HOST UK? Host promotes international friendship and understanding by arranging for international students studying in the UK to spend a day, weekend, Christmas or New Year in a British home. Many volunteer hosts across England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland enjoy meeting and welcoming international students into their homes. Students can have a unique chance to experience the British culture on their own or with a friend if he or she is also an international student.

UCLan student Rui visited North Yorkshire and said: “This experience is amazing! I have walked in the woodland, seen sheep, which I’ve never seen before. Life in the countryside is totally different from the city centre. Thanks for this opportunity, I will never forget it. Fantastic and unbelievable!!”

The experience is free for UCLan students as the university supports Host. Interested students can find more information and apply on the Host website www.hostuk.org. Applications for festive visits are filling up, so don’t delay in applying!

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DRUMMING... Paul Stewart mid-set

Emotional turmoil is the d’être behind any moving piece of separation inspired music.

It is a profound outlet and perhaps one of the most sincere themes in guitar driven music.

After a devastating break up with his partner after five years, The Feeling frontman Dan Gillespie Sells, huddled the group in their own studio recluse and what came out is the poignant sincerity of ‘Boy Cried Wolf’.

Yet separation from an intimate relationship was the only break-up that inspired the conception of the band’s fourth album. Drummer Paul Stewart explains how…

“Dan, who’s the chief songwriter in the band, went through a break up of a relationship that lasted for five years. I think largely most of the album is based on that experience.

Of a relationship coming to an end.

But also simultaneously we also came to the end of a six year relationship with our previous record company as well.

And so he found himself single, and we found ourselves without any sort of particular record company. So, he was on his own, we were on our own.

And so we basically got together in a room, and he’s like ‘well, I’ve written some songs about some things’ and we wanted to make some music just us.

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I FEEL FINE... Pop Quartet The Feeling.

We had a situation with our previous record label, where they were quite keen to steer us down a certain road and make us sound a certain way, which we weren’t so keen on, but we kind of had to do it to fulfill our contract.

So we felt quite liberated from sort of being told what to do effectively. So we made just the music that we wanted to make based on the songs that Dan had written about the break up and that is how it came by.”

Opening up with the eponymous track off of their newly released album, one could sense a warm and sincere embrace towards the viscerally haunting title track, as its highwailing hook, was greeted by semi-audible hummings of the huddled up crowd in the to-the-brim packed venue.

“They love it, that makes us so happy, because we’re pretty proud of it anyway and even if everyone said ‘We don’t like it’, then we’d say ‘Well you’re wrong, because we think it’s great.’

But actually they’ve all been saying it’s great too and they share the love for it.

And it’s really, really great.

It’s great to have both the critics and the fans saying ‘Brilliant! You’ve made a great record.

Your first one was great, and this one

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is really great. The others were good but this is what we want from you.

We want you to make great records and sound like you sound’ and so we did that. We didn’t really aim at that, but that is what happened.”

An almost homogenous setlist of new tracks were presented as tracks like ‘Gloves Are Off’ and ‘Anchor’ were juxtaposed with the firmly settled in crowdpleasers.

The precision of delivering was impeccable, and when Paul was asked about whether the new album bore a sense of progress, or should be acknowledged as a recurrence towards the band’s roots his reply mixed, yet decisive.

“A little bit of both actually. It’s definitely back towards the roots as far as we’ve made it in the same way we made our first record, which is the five of us in a room, nobody interfering, and just playing music, and doing whatever we wanted.

Not trying to make it sound like it would work on a certain radio station, or appeal to a certain age group, or any of that stuff.

We just it just completely natural and did whatever we wanted to do.

Which is exactly what happened in the first record, because we made the whole

thing before we even got a record deal and we were doing it to just have a bit of fun.

And it turned into this, which is amazing, but that’s another story.

At the same time I guess it’s a slightly more mature sound and lyrically it’s slightly more mature than some of the stuff we’ve done.

So we’re sort of moving on in the sense that we’re now a few years older than the first record, but the approach was the same.”

Before embarking on the tour, supporting their latest album, supported by the vibrantly enthusiastic Yellowire, a band with contagious rockinspired sound and a knack of fitting old songwriting tendencies into new prisms, The Feeling had had, as described by Paul, quite an interesting year.

“We’ve done some bizarre things actually. Strangely enough we’ve played two palaces this year.

We played Buckingham palace in the summer for the Coronation Gala.

So, we played for the Queen. That was very exciting.

And we also played I front of the Peace palace in The Hague for the Peace One Day Festival, which was another incredible opportunity.

So those gigs were pretty amazing.

We’ve done some pretty great festivals as well.”

But despite the opportunities past, Paul and the band’s allegiance to their fans is unbreakable.

“To be honest with you though, the main thing is that this tour now.

I mean it’s only the third night, but this is us going out playing the new material from the new album, which we’re really proud of and playing to our own fans, which bought tickets to come and see us, as opposed to a festival, where it’s just lots of people, who are there anyway.”

As band frontman Dan would later on profess to the eager crowd during a performance

“I’ve had a vision. Still being on tour in my sixties. Standing on stage doing [sings high-pitched vocals] and then dropping dead. It would be a nice way to go, really.”

As the second encore progressed past known favourite Dan, he smiled at the crowd and proclaimed

“Big Wednesday night in Manchester.

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IN October 2012, just before England were about to play in Poland in a World Cup Qualifier, Roy Keane, speaking as a pundit for ITV, said this about Joe Hart: “There’s a fine line between confident and cocky and I think he’s been a little bit too cocky this year. He just relaxes a little bit and takes his eye off the ball, and he needs a bit more competition around him.”

I, a Man City fan watching at home, unsurprisingly disagreed. After all, Hart had not long since had the game of his life against Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League, where he’d stopped City being humiliated by the fluent Germans with a series of stunning saves.

That summer, the summer of 2012, Hart was untouchable. He’d just come off the back of two brilliant seasons at Man City in which he won the FA Cup and Premier League, won the Golden Glove twice and was named in the PFA Team of the Year. He’d also played at his first senior international tournament at Euro 2012 and the England number one spot was set to be his for the next decade.

Debate was raging at the time about whether he or Manuel Neuer was the best goalkeeper in the world.

“He’s talking rubbish,” I said of Keane’s statement (not for the first time).

Then, during the game, Hart came for a corner, got nowhere near the ball and Poland equalised as a result. The game finished 1-1.

A mere blip, I thought, and I’m sure I wasn’t alone. All goalkeepers make mistakes, let’s move on.

But then on Boxing Day came another crucial error. Hart failed to make a routine save from an Adam Johnson shot at

Sunderland, which resulted in the winning goal in a 1-0 City defeat.

More mistakes followed, against Southampton and West Ham. Keane’s ‘cocky’ comments began to ring true, as others in the media noticed a change in his demeanour. There was even rumours that had Roberto Mancini not been sacked as City manager, he would have tried to sign Asmir Begovic from Stoke.

This season, nothing changed. Mistakes against Cardiff, Aston Villa and Bayern Munich x2 have cost Man City valuable points on both the domestic and European front. Then, at Stamford Bridge, as City looked like earning a massive, well-earned point at Chelsea,

Hart came recklessly charging out of his box to chase a long ball that City defender Matija Nastasic had well covered.

Nastasic, unaware of Hart’s idiocy until it was too late, headed the ball back to where he thought his keeper would be and Fernando Torres nipped in to score a last minute winner.

That was the last straw for me, my patience with Hart had already started wearing thin; more importantly it was the last straw for Manuel Pellegrini. In the three games since, Costel Pantilimon has played instead. In my opinion, it was the right decision to drop Hart. Since the start of the 2012-13 season, Hart has made eight errors leading to goals in the

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Premier League; more than anyone else.

So, what’s gone wrong for the 26-yearold?

First of all, Roy Keane was right (that was VERY difficult to type). Hart hasn’t had enough competition and as a result he’s become too comfortable. Pantilimon was never seen as serious competition at City, proved by the fact Hart played in the 2013 FA Cup Final despite Pantilimon not putting a foot wrong in the previous rounds. On the England front, Fraser Forster playing in Scotland will always hamper his starting chances despite his performances in the Champions League. John Ruddy has had a terrible start to the season with Norwich, which only leaves Ben Foster, who is still nowhere near Hart’s level. With no genuine competition to either his City or England place, Hart has lacked motivation and it’s finally began to show. If dropping him doesn’t make him find that motivation again, then nothing will.

Secondly, Hart has lost focus. Sponsorship deals (including those ridiculous Head & Shoulders adverts) and talk of being the world’s best seem to have distracted Hart from what should be his number one priority- striving to become the best goalkeeper he can be.

Pellegrini’s decision to drop Hart has sent a message to the rest of the City team that nobody is guaranteed a starting place if their performances drop. The message has been well and truly received. In the three games since Hart’s been dropped, they’ve won 2-0, 7-0 and 5-2.

Now the ball is in Roy Hodgson’s court. Will he use two upcoming friendlies against Germany and Chile to send a similar message to the England squad, or will he keep faith in Hart? Either way, Hart must now show he has the mental strength to be one of the world’s top goalkeepers, and rediscover the form that showed it.

LAZY VIEWS ON HARD WORK Alex Grebenar Comment Writer

MY paternal grandparents came to this country from Slovenia in 1947. Bill got a job as a bus driver and Maria worked in a mill. They worked hard, started a family and enjoyed life in England.

If you remove the first sentence, and interchange the professions, you essentially have the life story of most couples in the UK, whether born here or overseas.

Why then this week has David Cameron disputed this on the grounds of ethnicity?

Cameron wants us to say "no" to immigrants taking jobs in British factories, since some half the work was done by migrants from Eastern Europe.

He, along with other prominent figures such as Boris Johnson and Jamie Oliver, has claimed that those from that corner of the continent have a far supe-

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rior work ethic than British people. And frankly, it comes across like a goulash with rotten meat – a delicious prospect with an element which ruins the whole.

It's an extremely lazy generalisation in the vein of the 'Efficient German', 'Romantic Frenchman', 'Fiery Scot', and many more seemingly benign generalisations – á la Johnson’s insistence that many British school-leavers are ‘wet behind the ears’.

It may seem harmless at first, but it is a calculated attempt to disparage whole swathes of school leavers and the unemployed, whilst simultaneously coming across as inclusive yet realistic.

Are we really to believe that most 16year-olds do not desire a career, to work hard, maybe start a family and enjoy life?

It’s pure hot air, and it’s laced with political rhetoric – it’s not an off-thecuff dig.

It is potentially a convenient political ploy to assuage doubters about the current UK immigration policy that immigrants improve the country (and

there are no serious grounds for doubt that they do). It’s a discreet attempt to move away from 'coming over here and taking our jobs' rhetoric which starts with cosy middle-class Euro scepticism, the standpoint of a considerable amount of Tory target voters, and escalates via the likes of UKIP and the far right.

Cameron and his party should at least be aware of these stances, particularly because of the potential for them to gain protest votes. It may well have been a one-off remark, but it will certainly be interesting to see if it recurs in future speeches in the run up to election.

If it does become a regular theme, Cameron may well have made a rod for his and his party’s proverbial back (although I’m sure they’ll be glad it was made by an Englishman).

The concession that Eastern European migrants are better equipped to perform in the workplace poses serious questions about the education system in this country if he is saying that, by

his logic, UK school-leavers are not competitive in the job market.

Furthermore, it flies in the face of the Conservative’s pledge to back ‘hard working people’ (their latest robotic go-to phrase); is he suggesting that British people currently employed in factories up and down the country are somehow not as motivated as their foreign colleagues?

That they also do not have families to provide for and bills to pay? It also panders to the popular caricature of the idle ‘can’t work, won’t work’ jobseeker at the expense of the vast swathes of unemployed people desperate to get back into paid work.

There are Polish people in the UK, there are also British children of Polish people and British-Polish children (substitute Poland for any Eastern European country, too).

I could go on with yet more combinations, but I think my point is clear. To suggest that they all share an inherent predisposition for hard work is just a little indolent.

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everyone who feels unrepresented that doesn’t vote (35% at the last general election), that just adds more weight to the people that vote Tory. Labour are probably the lesser of two evils in that respect.

Not voting isn’t the answer – if Labour had got in at the last election we wouldn’t have a Bedroom Tax, we wouldn’t be tearing down the NHS and we probably wouldn’t have sold Royal Mail to our mates at such a low price.

However, it’s easy to understand why Brand has become so switched off by mainstream politics.

His points about class divisions and damaging the environment are correct and the left-wing of politics has been hugely underrepresented since Thatcherism, New Labour and all that followed.

Perhaps he, and countless others, should look into The Green Party, who are often stigmatised as a party that solely cares about the environment.

As someone who agrees with Brand on many of his points, particularly the call for a revolution, it’s hard not to wish somebody else had made them.

While on paper there is no-one better positioned to comment than a man who has gone from extreme poverty and a drug habit to fame and fortune, the reality is quite different.

His opinion has been torn down by many because of his past. Whether it’s because he was a drug addict, told a national treasure he had slept with his granddaughter, or even in that interview

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potentially objectified a woman, everyone has a huge irrelevant stick to beat Brand with.

It’s a genuine shame, because if a less controversial figure were to make the same points, maybe more people would have listened and we might actually have something on our hands.

Instead, Noel Gallagher sits in his mansion worrying about his taxes, because that’s all he has to worry about.

He doesn’t worry about the strain on food banks or greenhouse gases because A.K.A. What A Life was in a Vauxhall advert and his arena tour sold out, so why should he?

Gallagher is just an example, and that Brand still cares is hugely commendable and a reflection of his strong underlying character.

Journalists have lined up to criticise Brand despite social media in general responding positively to his interview with Paxman and his essay in guest-edited The New Statesman. They focused obsessively on his decision not to vote which was not the key point of the essay

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at all. That nearly every public figure, whether it be a journalist or Robert Webb (who hilariously told Brand to ‘read some f*cking Orwell’ as if any left shift would result in a 1984 style dystopia) has criticised him illustrates his point.

It is not him that is trivial or apathetic, but the system itself.

It is a terrifying thought that it is left to Russell Brand to tell us all this, "We shouldn't destroy the planet. We shouldn't create massive economic disparity.

We shouldn't ignore the needs of the people.”

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Joe Hart is really upset because he has been dropped so I told him not to be really upset.

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This Russell Brand backlash is a bit like watching people criticise the hairstyle of someone who's shouting that their house is on fire.

No doubting Joe Hart's ability but if you're not playing well it doesn't matter if you are a top player, you deserve to be dropped.

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ASIDE from his performance in Get Him To The Greek, where Brand essentially played a caricature of himself, I can’t say I have ever warmed to the comedian.

While many have criticised his past lifestyle (one idiot on Gogglebox insinuated that he didn’t deserve an opinion because he was a recovering drug addict) or his current attitudes towards women, my problem has always been that I just don’t find him that funny or that intelligent.

It was something of a shock then, when I found myself transfixed by a video where he discusses politics with a past-his-best Jeremy Paxman. For those who live under rocks, Brand criticised the current political system, claiming it creates an underclass and destroys the environment. A great quote was, “David Cameron says profit isn’t a dirty word. I say it’s a filthy word.” Then, most controversially of all, he urged people not to vote because nothing would change.

Predictably, this drew fire from various different sources. Paxman himself called Brand a trivial man and criticised him for not having any answers, despite the fact he is a comedian, not a politician. Robert Webb rejoined the Labour party and criticised Brand for urging people not to vote. They have a point, because for

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After a very late start, winter has finally arrived and brought with it a very cold snap to kick start our wardrobes into a frenzy of fur coats, woolly jumpers and layering. Keeping stylish in these winter months seems like a task, but fear not, it’s still achievable! Looking fashionable when it’s sub-zero degrees is easier than you may think after Rebecca Boffey points in the right direction…

FIND YOUR PERFECT COAT

It may sound obvious, but finding a coat that not only suits you but also your wardrobe is key to keeping stylish in the cold months.

Naturally it has to be something that will keep you warm and also something you will enjoy wearing all day every day. Colours that will see you through years to come are blacks, browns, greys and neutrals. These shades are ultra-classy and versatile, meaning your wardrobe will accompany them nicely. Shape is also important when considering a coat. The classic trenchcoat is a definite go-to and offers plenty of room to layer up underneath. Alternatively, the slouchy boyfriend- coat and fur numbers are essential if you prefer less form-fitting styles.

the climate, but wearing big bulky jumpers one after the other will not only deduct style points but also be uncomfortable. Layering works best when all the layers are visible, so opt for collars coming out of jumpers, or even other tops. Shirts or knitwear under summery clothes instantly transforms the versatility of a wardrobe, whilst fur gilets add a sophisticated edge to a plain jumper.

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THERMALS AREN’T ALL THAT BAD

Not the most stylish of suggestion, but by investing in some thermals- be it a vest or leggings, it enables you to wear your outfit of choice without having to layer up or wear a big winter coat. Available in Primark at student friendly costs, thermals simply go underneath your clothes and in most cases are virtually undetectable (outfit depending). If full thermal clobber isn’t to your taste, try just wearing

thermal tights under skirts and dresses. Our grannies always do know best…

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Nobody likes sore, chapped hands so investing in a decent pair of gloves is crucial. Like with a coat, a neutral colour is more multipurpose. Take it back to basics and team them with a matching scarf. If not, there are plenty of scarves around to take your pick from. Experiment with different ways of wearing them to optimise the style and warmth factor. If scarfs aren’t for you, there are some great alternatives in the way of snoods, faux fur stoles and detachable collars, look to Topshop and River Island for the best ones. Hats are always a winter staple and help to keep your ears warm! Beanies are always a classic trend and come in a variety of colours and styles, but if they aren’t your taste, try a furry Cossack hat or fluffy ear muffs!

RESTORE YOUR BEAUTY

The main rule with layering is to wear thin clothing.

Sounds silly doesn’t it, given

HERE at Pluto we’re always looking for ways to save money. So when it comes to expensive beauty products, we want to do as much as possible to use every last bit.

Don’t dump your beauty products if they’ve cracked under pressure. Mahaim Saud has some tips to help you make amends.

Broken blush A bashed up blusher can easily be turned into a cream blush within minutes. Simply empty the broken powder into an empty pot and mix it with a good face moisturiser. Keep mixing it until you’re happy with the colour and texture.

Snapped lipstick

Gently warm the bottom of the broken piece of lipstick with a lighter so it melts a little. Next, gently press it back on top of the other half of the lipstick. Leave it in the fridge to cool and set for an hour or so. However, if your lipstick is broken beyond repair, empty it out into a pot and add a blob of Vaseline until you have a lip balm.

Dried out nail varnish Add a drop of nail varnish remover. Be careful not

to shake the bottle as this is the cause of those annoying bubbles you get once you apply.

Smashed eye-shadow Just smash it down even further to make a fine shadow powder.

Then transfer the powder into an eye-shadow pot you can find for as little as a pound on Ebay.

Dried out mascara Get your mascara back on the move by adding a

few drops of saline solution or eye drops to the bottle and mixing it with the wand.

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ONE of the most frustrating problems with having bigger boobs is trying to find clothes that fit properly. Luckily a local company have created a solution.

Made in Preston specialise in fashion fitted for bigger boobs and include a large selection of lingerie, swimwear, dresses and tops. All their clothing is designed, sampled, graded, produced and packaged in factory in Preston.

Their clothing offers a selection from sizes 6-16 and cup sizes DD-J offering a vast selection of beautiful and fashionable garments for ‘skooby’ (skinny with big boobs) figures.

Each item is expertly tailored to fit each woman to perfection so we can finally say goodbye to ill-fitting dresses from high street shops.

To shop the range visit: www.madeinpreston.com.

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FASHION Promotion students headed to Blackpool for one of their final year projects.

Focusing on Preston based business of Strictly Cupcakes, which is a small vintage tea room located on Cannon Street, the students planned a pastel themed fashion shoot on Blackpool’s North Pier.

The theme of the shoot was vintage, fun, young, colourful and playful, making Blackpool the perfect setting for the delicious cupcake inspired shoot.

The styling of the shoot was based on light pinks and lilacs and a variety of different textures, inlcuding sprinkle adorned sunglasses which looked great on the camera.

Students: Lucy Hill, Jordan Maher, Victoria Silva, Sophie Chappell.

Photographer: Dave Schofield Model Melissa Mae from Boss Model Management.

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Pluto reporter, Jasleen Kaur, hunts down the top five student-friendly apps. You now have no excuse for being late for class, getting in heaps of debt with your friends or leaving your reference list until the last minute!

THERE’S an app for everything. Some – like the flashlight – are more useful than others (ahem, Pimple Popper). So we here at Pluto decided that it was time to dive into the weird and wonderful world of smartphone applications and bring forth 5 apps to make student like just a little bit easier. The best part is that they won’t cost you an arm and a leg – all of these apps are completely free!

ReferenceME: Picture this – it’s 4 in the morning, you’re just reaching the word count of a particularly taxing essay. Sleep is looking like a welcome haven and then you realise – you forgot to do your citations page! Enter ReferenceME! No matter what citation method you use, just scan the barcode of your book/journal/magazine. ReferenceME pulls up the information of the text and translates it into the citation method of your choice – be it Harvard, MLA, APA, Oxford or anything else.

Evernote: The one thing that is bane of all students’ lives – notes.

Whether you type them, write them or typewrite them – there’s al-

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ways that moment during revision time when you just can’t find that one specific page! Evernote is the answer to all our prayers! Simply write your notes, enter tags to make them easily locatable and Evernote saves them automatically! Download Evernote on your PC, phone or tablet and it syncs your notes across all your devices. And now you can even clip webpages so all your research for that next horrific assignment can be saved in one handy place.

I.O.U: Money. There’s nothing that can turn things awkward in a house faster than money issues. I.O.U is here to save your life … and your bank account. Simply input how much money someone owes you (or you owe them) and then you can send them a text via the app to remind them! It also has the option to input items that may be owed (a bottle of vodka, a drink, their soul – whatever they owe, keep track of it with this app). Once repaid, simply add a “payback” or make it all even! Sorted!

My Class Schedule: A university campus is huge. Add to that fre-

quent room changes, scheduling difficulties and you’ll have a headache before your first week is over. That is where this wonderful app comes in. My Class Schedule allows you to input your classes, the teachers, room numbers, assignments and other deadlines and colour code them according to different subjects. You can even add reminders and alarms for deadlines. There’s no need to ever fumble for that crushed up timetable at the bottom of your bag ever again.

Copy: there’s nothing worse than losing your work. You spend hours typing up notes or perfecting that paragraph in that essay and then your computer crashes.

Or you stupidly forget to click save. Copy is your one stop backup shop. Simply save your document to the ‘Copy’ folder in your documents and it automatically syncs to your copy folder online and on your phone/tablet.

It’s a digital hard-drive that gives you 5 more gigabytes every time you refer it! Cheapest and handiest USB ever!

Love is complex so let our writers hold your hand and guide you through it

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." ― Dr. Seuss

“What’s Tinder?” we ask here in the Pluto office. Within seconds, two of us are downloading the app to see what the fuss is about with this new technology which is revolutionising the dating world.

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TINDER is a modern day ‘Hot or Not’ app that finds you “matches” based on your location, then you can scroll through hundreds of pictures, giving the nod to the ones that catch your eye, or dismissing the ones that do not. If the person you like, likes you too, it’ll come up as an instant match and you can start messaging.

The beauty of this app is the sheer simplicity of it.

As shallow as it may seem, it is mirroring how we approach someone we like in a real life situation, by finding them attractive first.

As I scrolled through pictures hoping not to see my dad on there, I couldn’t help but wonder why so many of the men on Tinder had pictures with other women.

Were these men committing Tinfidelity? Or were they just that popular with the ladies? One thing was for sure, if the girls in their pictures were hotter than me it was a straight up decline. It was a losing battle really.

It got worse when my sister got sick of me being overly selective and swiped yes to around seven random men. I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. Had I cyber vowed to marry someone? If they click yes too, does that mean I’m going to get sent naked pictures and a series of winking faces. All doubts were confirmed when David, 30 aka “Sir beer belly with his blackberry pin in his bio” started sending me kisses on Tinder chat. Classy. Thank the lord for the block feature.

I casually mentioned the app to a male friend, who happens to be in a relationship and ready to settle down. Within seconds he had downloaded the app and was laughing at pictures of girls and selecting the ones that caught his eye.

So , no matter how exciting and fun this app may be on the surface. You can potentially be messaging Paul, 23 aka “My wife just fell asleep so I’m going to see if I can get lucky elsewhere”.

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Maya Kellermann MY friend recently overheard a conversation on a train journey between a few (overly arrogant) boys that had decided they no longer needed their below average girlfriends because the extraordinary talent on Tinder proved they could “match” with far better specimens that were all “just waiting and ready to go”. Obviously this enticed me to investigate these clearly incredible people on the dating app.

Unfortunately the app seems to be infiltrated with over confident boys checking out what they could be missing out on (I’m assuming plenty of these girls too) but thanks to the app’s wonderfully simple way of cutting these out, it seems like a decent enough way to meet new people near to you.

The best feature by far is the effortless swiping to the left to say no and right to say yes, this nonchalant way of judging people left me feeling slightly superficial - but seemed a good way of filtering out the undesirables.

Naturally, it didn’t take long before the novelty of judging people’s photos wore off and I was left feeling obliged to continue somewhat monotonous conversation with some select attractive strangers.

I have heard a few success stories though, including a model friend (that has absolutely no need to use a dating site) who had been meeting up with people via the app purely for the ease of it, apparently she’s not been disappointed so far and I’m doubting she’s deleting the app any time soon.

Clearly this works for some people, but with the nature of the app and the “just waiting and ready to go” reputation the people on it apparently have, I’d probably steer clear if you wanted anything other than casual meet ups.

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Meal: TURKEY ROAST DINNER Brand: Iceland Price: £1.50 My enjoyment of this meal was initially impaired by confusion with the cooking instructions. There was the usual advice of piercing the film lid at several points, and that’s all well and good, then it asked me to remove the stuffing and sausage, place on a microwave

Appearance: 5/10 Taste: 6/10 Preparation: instructions poorly written (or maybe just poorly followed) Drink Pairing: fine food experts would recommend a good pinot noir to compliment turkey with its clean acidity and tannins gentle enough to work with poultry. This isn’t fine food – and red wine is

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Appearance: 4/10 Taste: 7/10 Preparation: too easy Drink pairing: a glass of white wine goes hand-in-hand with a mushroom-based sauce. But as you can only afford this for dinner, keep in mind you can’t afford a very decent wine either. Selecting a weight watchers endorsed meal means you’re also health conscious, so perhaps a nice glass of soda water will do you.

Ingredients for the cake:

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safe plate, and cook for 8 minutes. Naturally I assumed this meant cooking those items I had removed, when 8 minutes later I returned to the microwave to find two scorched, rock-hard items barely identifiable as food, I realised I had been mistaken. Cutting my losses, I then microwaved the rest of the meal for the recommended time.

About half this meal was made up of baby carrots, with a few miniature brussel sprouts floating around to provide a little greenery to the scene. The potato chunks actually tasted like real roasted potato, superior to the soggy wedges in the previous meal. The meat however left a little more to be desired, the three thin slices could only really be passable on a cold sandwich.

The gravy that smothers a good majority of the meal was nice and flavoursome, but I could not see nor taste the presence of any alleged cranberries. I wish I could tell you whether the pathetically small sausage or measly portion of stuffing complimented this meal.

GREAT British bake off is over, and I’m sure some of you are eager to get your whisks out and cover yourselves in icing sugar without breaking the bank. But you need some ideas? How about chocolate and vanilla marble cupcakes?!

Very easy to make and taste amazing. Your flat mates will love them and surely devour them just like mine did. So grab your aprons and get baking!

All of these ingredients are from Aldi and Nisa and are usually either on offer or really cheap anyway.

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Meal: MUSHROOM & BROCCOLI WEDGE MELT Brand: Weight Watchers from Heinz Price: £1.00 (as part of 3 for £3 deal) When it first comes out of the microwave this ‘light meal’ has the appearance of a bubbling container of radioactive waste.

As I gingerly sampled a little of the sauce, I was pleasantly surprised by a depth of mushroomy flavour I had feared would be amiss. It’s nice to see some shapes recognisable as actual vegetables. The small florets of broccoli appear un-tampered with.

The potato wedges, all nine of them, have a soggy blandness to them; I feel that they could’ve done more to ensure their tastiness.

There is an immense amount of sauce with this, at least twice as much as the photo on the box would suggest. It is tasty, that’s not my complaint. But there is much more than the meagre amount of wedges can sop up. I can’t resist breaking out a slice or two of bread to mop up the sauce with. It was satisfying, but probably beats the purpose of a calorie controlled portion…

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1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees/gas mark 4 and put your cake cases in a cupcake tray.

2. Measure out all the ingredients into separate bowls for easier access.

3. Beat the eggs into a large bowl or jug and leave to one side.

4. Mix two teaspoons of vanilla extract, butter, flour and sugar into a large bowl and add the eggs bit by bit and mix with a wooden spoon.

5. With an electric whisk or by sheer power of your arms, mix all of the mixture together for two minutes.

6. Separate the mixture by equal amounts into two bowls and add 3 table spoons of hot chocolate powder into bowl and mix in until completely stirred in.

7. Using two large spoons, alternate putting the mixture into the cake cases. Vanilla, chocolate, vanilla, chocolate until you’re a cm away from the top of the case.

8. Bake in the oven for 15-25 minutes. Check if the cakes are cooked by poking a knife through the centre or by slightly touching the top of them. If they spring up they should be done!

Topping:

1. Whilst your cakes are cooling, mix the butter, icing sugar and vanilla extract into a bowl until soft and creamy. You might have to add a little more icing sugar.

2. Grab a freezer bag or carrier bag from the cupboard and aim to drop the filling into one corner of the bag to make your own icing tube!

3. Once you’ve poured the icing in, using a bobble or elastic band, tie the bag where the icing stops to seal off the top and stop the icing from pouring out.

4. Grab the scissors and cut the corner of the bag a little to allow the icing to come out smoothly for you to decorate with!

Now that your cupcakes are cool, decorate to your heart’s content! If you cut down the centre of the cakes, there should be a mixture of chocolate and vanilla sponge visible and your icing should taste great.

probably far too fancy for your student disposition.

Meal: CHICKEN CURRY Brand: Asda ‘Chosen by you’ Price: £1.00 I am most confused why Asda choses to brand this as ‘chosen by you’. Like it is heart-warmingly speaking directly to us as the consumers, knowing that this microwaveable health-obliterator is true to our souls desires. Like even if we had more time, money, taste and a personal chef – this would still be the epitome of our food cravings.

This was all you could expect from a super cheap chicken curry with rice. I didn’t even feel like doing this the sanctity of dishing it up on a plate, eating it from the flimsy plastic container it hailed from.

The instructions weren’t as easy to get confused about as the turkey dinner’s, but I did have the bother of remembering to add water to the rice at a stage in it’s heating. Which I suppose was worth it for the sake of being able to enjoy light fluffy rice that isn’t the consistency of birdseed.

The sauce was not bad. Warm and somewhat comforting with a hint of spice that surely wouldn’t offend even those most opposed to fiery food. The chicken tastes good on the occasional mouthful you find a chunk of the white flesh bobbling amongst the sauce and rice, though probably tastes more unprocessed than it actually is.

Appearance: 3/10 Taste: 4/10 Preparation: Fairly simple two-step system Drink pairing: A cheap and nasty curry should be chased down your throat by a cheap and nasty beer.

Crack open a Foster’s and dwell on how culturally aware you are as you sip an ‘authentic Australian’ beer and munch down an equally authentic Indian dish.

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The very latest music news, reviews and interviews

Tempah Triumph

“Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.” - John Lennon

OF course once Tinie Tempah’s debut had hit the charts, a Banner-to-Hulk growth in the scene had been introduced, hailing the London-bred rapper as the UK’s most chart-friendly rhymesmithing juggernaut. Expectations were high as critics saw in his full length follow-up ‘Demonstration’ as the means to cement the vibrant 24year old’s position as UK’s most marketable hip hop artist.

Ever since the early summer release of brutally potent floor-filler ‘Trampoline’, further amplified by the company allpresent in hip hop club busters throughout the year Atlanta-based 2Chainz, and the unorthodox masterpiece of modern trap, courtesy of Major Lazer’s own Diplo.

There is even a pinch of club potential in the highly energetic, dancehall sampling consequent track, ironically titled ‘Don’t Sell Out’.

Whether it’s the highly party oriented pettiness of the initial single, the trippi-

Arctic Monkeys Phones4U Arena, Manchester Review by Milo McManus

FRONTMAN Alex Turner leads out the group to an entire arena going crazy and even more so after Matt Helders does the three opening drum claps to ‘Do I Wanna Know’.

Turner had the audience in his hands from the word go, and after the eerie atmospheric opener they burst into life with the old classic ‘Brianstorm’.

After the third track Turner looks more fired up than ever before and gets the fans on their feet with ‘Don’t Sit Down ‘Cause I’ve Moved Your Chair’ and shouts halfway through, “Manchester I’ve moved your f*cking chair” to the fans singing the “OOOH YEAH YEAH YEAH” chorus perfectly back at the band.

Turner addresses the fans with his slow Sheffield tone, “Manchester, did anybody buy our new album?” and after the fans scream back ‘One For The Road’, all band members, cast wide on the giant screens, looked very happy, especially Matt Helders, with huge grins.

Turner addresses the fans again with a charmingly arrogant “I guess one or two of you actually did buy the album” in which he gave the tour debut to one of the finest songs on the new album, ‘Fireside’ with accompaniment from Bill Ryder Jones.

ness of the snare drum oriented, dubstep fuelled ‘Mosh Pit’ Tinie shares with veteran Dizzee Rascal, the vividly electrical powerslap of a second single ‘Children of The Sun’, or even the angstier of the two Labrinth collaborations of the album ‘It’s OK’, a fervent build is always to be found in ‘Demonstration’. .

A very British wittiness is exhibited throughout the album and a wry humour is almost ever present. That is not to say that cases of sheer lyrical rap clichés are to be considered fully excluded from ‘Demonstration’, but the album shows an array of wordplay ingenuity, previously unfamiliar to an ear, exposed upon a Tinie Tempah track.

The dynamic with which Tinie contrasts himself to his many female collaborators provides a very explicit distinction between an aggressive, yet witty flow, garnished with either the emotional voice of Emeli Sandé in ‘A Heart Can Save The World’ and Paloma

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A few more amazing tracks later, Turner pulls out an old one with ‘Pretty Visitors’ to an arena waving their arms in sync with Turners waving arm. He then asks if there are any girls in the audience, and after a loud scream of hormonal teenagers he smoothly says “Girls, I should really be saying, LAAAAADIESSSSSS” which leads into the iconic ‘I Bet That You Look Good On The Dancefloor’.

After 3 minutes of the arena bouncing up and down, Turner quietly says “This one’s a quiet one” and he plays the plainly beautiful ‘Cornerstone’ from the bands third album, ‘Humbug’.

They left the stage for a while and with bags of confidence they re-enter the stage to fans clapping for an encore and they restart with the ‘AM’ beat ‘Snap Out Of It’ before moving onto an acoustic version of ‘Mardy Bum’ which fell nothing short of amazing.

Turner then goes onto introducing the band to the fans, the most odd one was probably “Nick O’Malley on the bass guitar, Manchester look into his eyes” and then finally addresses the audience with “This is our final one Manchester thanks for having us”.

He begins to say Manchester R-U...” and before shouting mine, Helders prematurely starts playing over him, but even with this little blip you can easily see why the Arctic Monkeys are probably the best band on the planet today.

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Faith in ‘Lost Ones’, or the sheer promiscuity of Candice Pillay in ‘Witch Doctor’.

Perhaps ‘Discovery’’s genius sense of Britishness is exactly what gives the album the national personality to further compliment Tinie’s quirkiness. suses overseas. It’s a finishing blow away from a classic, but definitely a sturdy step past a stepping stone in Tinie’s road to a hands-down knockout.

Review - Tony Tenev

Single Corner

Drenge - Nothing Infectious Records

SIBLING duo Rory and Eoin Loveless of ‘Drenge’ are quickly establishing themselves as the most exciting new band to come out of Britain.

Their new single ‘Nothing’, is a distorted and melodic driven track that can appeal to hipsters and metal heads alike.

It follows the widespread critical acclaim of their self-titled debut album and their numerous festival appearances over the year.

Their style on this track is comparable to the grungier work of the White Stripes, with its seemingly effortless balance of brooding electric guitar and vocals with a tone that is both assertive and resigned at once. Drenge are a delight to anyone who has been wondering what happened to this kind of music.

Review - Alannah Maher

Pluto Playlist

What’s been played in the Pluto office this past week Arctic Monkeys One For The Road Circa Waves Get Away Editors Honesty

Frank Turner Oh Brother

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James Arthur You’re Nobody Till Somebody Loves You

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Frankie & The Heartstrings 53 Degrees 14th November £7 ADV - 53degrees.net The Creature Comfort The Ferret 16th November Free Entry The Fratellis 53 Degrees 22nd November £23.00 - 53degrees.net Kunt & The Gang The Ferret 28th November £4 theferret.info

The Darkness 53 Degrees 1st December £25 - 53degrees.net Factory Floor Kazimier, Liverpool 5th December £10 - thekazimier.co.uk The Lancashire Hotpots 53 Degrees 7th December £12 - 53degrees.net Primal Scream Manchester Academy 15th December £25 - seetickets.com

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Beat The Frog Frog & Bucket, Preston Every Wednesday Free- thefrogandbucket.com Steve Hughes Comedy Store, Manchester 13th November £15- thecomedystore.co.uk Micky Flanagan Manchester Phones4U Arena 21 & 22nd November £25- phones4uarena.co.uk Red Ribbon Cabaret 53 Degrees 30th November £10- 53degrees.net

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Up Close And Personal With...

Back to their best with new album ‘The Weight Of Your Love’, Birmingham quintet EDITORS are the musical jewel in the crown of the Midlands.

Pluto’s Milo McManus caught up with guitarist Justin Lockey for a quick chat before their huge 18 date UK tour this month...

...Hi Justin, how’s the European tour been so far?

Very good, exceptionally well...long.

Have you had a favourite night so far?

Madrid last week was amazing, they’re full on! Milan was crazy! Every night has been good so far .

You’re in Amsterdam tonight aren’t you? Do you have a favourite thing to do there?

(We’ve) been couple of times over summer for festivals, sounds boring but restaurants and the cinema but whenever we’re here we just like to chill really.

Who was you all listening to when the new album was wrote? Did everybody have an input or did Tom write it all?

The way it works Tom writes the chords at a basic level and we all smash it apart so it works and sounds like a band tune.

Sometimes it needs to go round the houses a bit. Everyone knows their area very well we’ve been doing this for a long time.

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I like the opener ‘The Weight’, why did you choose it to be the first song on the album?

I dunno man, we sounded nothing like that when rehearing it, it just came together well in the studio and it sounded like a really nice opening song and Sugar the song after it goes really well as an opening set up. I guess it’s just the way it panned out, really dark eastern strings.

Who was your hero when you were young?

Pixies were my favourite band when i was growing up.

Was it one of their tunes you learned first?

I’ve never really learnt anyone else’s tunes, i’ve been in bands since I was 15, I don’t think I can actually play anyone else’s songs. I can’t pick up a guitar and play someone else’s tunes because I’m so used to playing original stuff so I’ve never really played anyone else’s tunes.

Do you prefer playing abroad or in England?

there’s longer travel abroad, we’ve been out since September, done Scandinavia, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain and now I’m in Holland so it messes with your mind a bit because you don’t know what day it is or what time it is but apart from that as long as the audience it class.

I’ve always wondered this about performers; do you still get nervous before performances?

Not nervous you get excited but when you do so many shows, I think we’re doing 50 shows in 60 days so you just get excited. It’s kind of hard to explain you just crack on.

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Sean Lock

We love a Laugh “Don't worry, I haven't heard of you either!"

- Stewart Francis

8 Out Of 10 Cats funny man SEAN LOCK brought his stand up show ‘Purple Van Man’ to Preston’s Guildhall on November the 2nd. Keara Lynch went to see what all the fuss was about.

I honestly wasn’t too sure what to expect from Purple Van Man. I admit that I am only an occasional 8 out of 10 cats viewer and have never before seen Sean Lock perform without a panel of other comedians to bounce off of but my boyfriend on the other hand loves the man and by luck, chance or coincidence I spotted a single (very possibly the only) poster advertising the event only five days after my boyfriend’s 21st birthday. It was clearly meant to be.

Sean Lock entered stage right, after his own behind the curtain introduction, and began his night of pessimistic yet inspired jibber jabber.

He gave us impressions, opinions, observations and gags but as always, there was “that guy” making desperate attempts to steal the limelight.

Tonight’s trouble maker appeared shortly after a rant about Christmas presents maybe 10 minutes into the act and took form in “Toxic Terry”, a self-proclaimed homeless man who reads the Big Issue and couldn’t seem to form any other comprehensible sentence. Sean at-

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tempted to banter off of the interruption but after a few semi audio mumbles on Terry’s part Sean moved on with the show. That is until he was interrupted again… and at several other intervals during the first half. This situation was very delicately handled and resolved after a simple “Terry, will you shut the f*ck up?”.

Sean is a very charitable man and suggested a new donation scheme to raise funds for Toxic Terry and ten of his friends to come back to the Guild Hall to see Jimmy Carr when he visits next September.

After this the night continued on relatively smoothly and overall the night was very enjoyable. Hearing anecdotes about how he terrorises his children, how he would rid the world of broadcast advertising and his thoughts of reforming to Catholicism leading to what life would be like as a deformed centaur was bizarrely seamless and highly amusing.

Sean Lock has made a fan out of me and reduced my boyfriend to tears so I can safely say that we give Sean Lock four thumbs up.

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10. Star wars: Battlefront – Rumoured that this game was in “secret development” for quiet some time, it seemed as though the franchise wasn’t making a return anytime soon. Devoid of any real game play, and only a 33 second long Computer Graphic trailer, the ‘DICE’ logo in the beginning of the trailer is enough to get gamers fired up over the overwhelming possibilities, in this never ending Universe of Galactic Warfare. The force is strong with this one.

9. Forza Motorsport 5 – Speeding its way to the Xbox One, Turn 10 Studios, Forza Motorsport 5 is the epitome of a next-generation driving game. The gorgeous open world marvel stars the world’s greatest tracks and cars, and the trailer without a doubt delivered that message.

8. The Order 1886 (PS4 Exclusive) – A New IP, exclusively for the PS4, The Order 1886 debut a mysterious trailer this year at E3 leaving gamers with more questions than answers. The world is set in a historic, yet alternate Victorian London, but with a twist. The four victorianesque protagonists in the mysterious trailer are packing some high tech weapons and fending off some warewolf, mythical like creatures in this cinematic wonder.

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Top 10 Next Generation Trailers E3 2013 Conference Georgia Gregoriou Gaming Editor

WITH the hype of the Next Generation consoles, Xbox One and PS4 nearing ever so close this month in November, what better way to get prepared and pumped for this month of madness than to countdown the top 10 trailers that stole the show at this year’s Electronics Entertainment Conference (E3).

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7. Titanfall – Ex developers of the earlier Call of Duty games, Infinity Ward, unveiled its ferocious sci-fi shooter game at the Microsoft Press Conference, and it looks promising. Titanfall is a FPS action game which embodies a dynamic of playing as both ground troops and the mechs they pilot.

6. Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag – Ubisoft never fails to produce awe inspiring Assassin’s Creed CG trailers, and this year was no exception. Narrating the trailer was the nefarious Blackbeard which sets the tone for this pirate journey on the high seas Captain Edward Kenway.

5. InFAMOUS: Second Son – Half way through the countdown, Sucker Punch snatches fifth place. Executing a well balanced suprise reveal, the trailer displayed primarily game play footage. The PS4 exclusive demonstrated a blatant protagonist switch from the original character, Cole McGrath to Delsin Rowe, discovering his new found superpowers and develish characteristics.

4. Destiny – Since handing over the reigns of the Halo series in 2011 to 343 Industries, Destiny is Bungie’s first game since then. The promising title displayed blatant Halo elements to the game. As the trailer revealed the MMO open-world shooter, there is not a shadow of a doubt that gamers everywhere are anticipating this organic and innovative next-generation experience in the coming year.

3. Super Smash Brothers – A perfect harmony of CG and game play in the trailer announcement, Super Smash Bros has been on every Nintendo Console since the N64, therefore, when it was announced that the classic franchise was to be released on the Wii U and the 3DS, that was no shock. The flowy transition from nostalgic to modern surprised viewers as Nintendo finally decided to give the Super Smash Bros a new addition, Mega Man.

2. Halo 5 - Master Chief makes his way to the Xbox One. Snatching second place, 343 industries Halo 5, will continue to release the legendary FPS series on the next gen console. The trailer reveald a hooded figure skulking through a harsh terrain, before revealing the epic spartan himself, Master Chief. It left viewers speechless, excited and overwhelmed in anticipation to see what 343 will bring next to the Halo universe.

1. The Division – The number one spot for the best trailer at E3’s 2013 conference was hands down, Tom Clancy’s The Division. The announcement that caught everyone off-guard in a “Just one more thing...” moment. Tom Clancy’s, The Division, apart of Ubisoft’s spectacular line up this year at E3, the game play trailer demonstrated an awe inspiring open-world, online action-RPG masterpiece and the response was positive.

DARK KNIGHT SET TO RISE FOR ORIGINS Batman: Arkham Origins Review Warner Brothers Games Montréal Steven Smith Sports Editor

WHEN the Batman game hits the shelves on October 25th, it was unimaginable for it not to be a success, due to the already extensive fan base the Dark Knight has. Batman: Arkham Origins may not live up to the hype of its previous successors, Arkham Asylum and Arkham City , it is however, an exhilarating adventure for any avid Dark Knight fan, as it offers countless captivating twists and will undeniably thrive to keep you on the edge of your seat.

There were doubts when Rocksteady Studios bowed out after developing the first two games, but I believe Warner Brothers have taken up mantel admirably themselves, and being a first attempt, have done exceeding well, developing a game which appeared to have pleased the majority of fans.

The game’s plot undertakes an alluring view on the early years of the bat’s vigilante career, exploring his personality and state of mind to an extent gamers and viewers alike have not seen on the big screen or in the games before.

Origins heralds mirror elements to the franchises previous games, as it maintains the key theme which continues to explore the complex relationship between batman and his arch nemesis, the Joker, which retrospectively delves into sequences of when they first met, which I think they have done commendably.

Origins lays down the foundations for gamers, as they get to see and experience the reasoning behind the Jokers clinical obsession with the Dark Knight, which is evident later in the series. The game also sticks to what you could call the ‘bat code’ where on multiple occasions; Batman has the chance to knock off his villains which is crucial because if players don’t grasp the basics correctly,

then the game could fall apart.

This game, like the ones which came before it, also give some screen time to some of Batman’s more inconspicuous foes such as, Deadshot and Black Mask, as DC and Warner Brothers aim to expand upon the already intricate and perplexing Batman Universe which has been established.

In terms of combat and game play mechanics, there are ultimately elements which are identical to its two previous games with a great deal of stealth game play and gadgets. It is undeniably right up there with Devil May Cry and God of War as one the best in the industry.

However, there are some fans out there that will be disappointed with the lack of new features and the repetitiveness of the combat, in comparison to the two previous games. In saying that however, the fluid attack chains, along with the spectacular final take down, makes it undeniably a game which is playable again, again and again.

The games level upgrade system is something to be considered, as upgrade choices are very limited, the game might as well make your decisions for you. This is a prime example of development that has failed to reach the quality standards that everyone was expecting, as it comes off as very rushed and pushed to be released as quickly as possible.

In some aspects Origins does break the mold and introduces something different to the franchise, as it establishes the ‘Batcave’, combat simulation and original side missions which are positive additions, this creates a game of quality and depth and makes the game feel a little more innovative.

All in all, this could ultimately be a signal of intent, as Warner Brothers are already under way with preparations for a fourth Batman game, and I personally can’t wait to see what they bring to the next installment in the Batman Arkham franchise.

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STUDENT RUN EXHIBITION AT HANOVER GALLERY Art

Kristina Hall Art’s Editor On October 5th, Hanover Project invited the general public and UCLan students to the preview of Untitled One. It is the first of a series of exhibitions curated and organised by second year Fine Art student as part of module and professional development. This opportunity influence students to consider themselves and their practice in the professional contemporary art world .As the exhibition offers a selection of film, print sculpture and illustration from artists with from the

“As music is poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight.” - James McNeill Whistler

past and present academic career. The artists consist of Ross Armstrong, Joanne Ashworth, Claire Baxter, Hannah Bennett, Kyle Brown, Megan Cameron, Adelaide Camard and Adele Legar.

Entering the exhibition I was drawn to Adelaide Camard’s Some Order in My Ideas (2003). The work focuses on presenting a consistency of thought and giving a material existence to something of which the artist explores the dispossession of thought. Looking at the piece I am immediately reminded of Tracey Emin’s ‘Is legal Sex Anal’ (1998), a neon lights piece consisting of just words, and I began to question why film and not sculpture? The film consists of a series of words of which create a narrative line and provokes the audience to find new story. In her filmed sculpture, Adelaide Camard uses light as a way to create shadows and that gives the sculpture more life through movement making what is thought to my material immaterial.

Walking through the rest of the exhibition I was presented with prominent themes of social awareness, everyday objects and the use of existing materials.

In Hannah Bennett's Examination Studies (2013) , she explores prints and particular shapes to make the audience react differently to what they see. Her work is strongly influenced by Rorschachs’ inkblots and cleverly incorporates the idea of the mind recognition and influences its audience to become part of the piece. Similar to this work, Kyle Brown in his Drawings (2013) also uses the idea of

the audience fairly well. His series of drawings questions ignorance and how particular people perceive and relate to the world around them for example a zoo and in response he has presented a lion behind bars in one of his illustrations. This piece provokes you to think about yourself and how as an individual you view the world building your own conversation with the piece.

In Adele Leger's Peluca Umbilica (The secret Revealed) (2013) , she identifies and attaches importance to what we may think are trivial objects or certain actions we do without acknowledging why or what we what doing.

The concept influences the audience to think of trivial things that we may take for granted and the things we may have carelessly explored as a curious small child.

A similar concept runs through Ross Armstrong's Blueprint (i-ix) (2012) and Maquette From Blueprint Series (i-ii) (2012) and Megan Cameron's Observational Drawing (2013) .With Ross Armstrong's work ,the series is based on Pylon design and architecture and highlights the idea that we pay little attention to them even though they are a major power source and we perhaps class them as everyday objects .In Megan Cameron's work it a simple abstract reconstruction and deconstruction of the domestic ,familiar and ,what the artist labels, the banal Both Joanne Ashworth and Claire Baxter incorporate the use of natural mate-

rials into their work which lead me to consider students using and sourcing materials which are readily available to them as opposed to buying materials.

I find this very interesting when comparing such pieces to works of digital art which aren't easily available but are also seem to be popular.Joanne Ashworth uses natural material and traditional craft methods to create Old Oak Swing (2011).She had used inspiration from a poem her mother wrote when she was small.

The sculptural piece mirrors her childhood well and provokes childhood feelings and memories as well as a conversation among the audience. Similar to this piece ,Claire Baxter uses natural surfaces to make a series of prints capturing nature in its element.This piece interested me as it was hung by Adelaide Camard's Some Order In My Ideas and presented a contrast in choice in medium Looking at exhibition as a whole it presents the public with a range of talent and thought provoking concepts which you may find current and relevant to the contemporary art world whether it use of new mediums or old methods.

Untitled One will be exhibiting at the Hanover Gallery space until 12 November and will be followed by the second group exhibition private view on November 19th followed by the exhibiting being open to the public on November 20th until November 26th .Visit Pluto Online for regular updates.

Meanwhile at The Harris Museum and Art Gallery Current Exhibition

Faye Spencer: Monstrous Body of Perpetual Research Faye Spencer, a graduates from

UCLAN’s Fine Art course in 2013 hosts soem of her recent workdon the Harris Museums Stairway Exhibition space. Her interests are centred around a grotesque, absurd and unwieldy body of multidisciplinary research looking at the construction of nature and culture.

Opportunity

Harris Open Exhibitions 2013 Harris Museum invites Preston based artists to show their work in the Harris Open exhibition. This is a great opportunity to get work of any medium seen to by the general public . Submissions are Friday 6 December and Saturday 7 December, 10.00am 4.00pm.

Reviewing the best new films and more

“I'll take your mother, Dorothy Mantooth, out for a nice seafood dinner and never call her again.” - Champ Kind

Thor: The Dark World Director - Alan Taylor Produced by - Marvel Studios

SO it’s round 2 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Thor’s first outing after ‘Avengers Assemble’.

It continues to raise the stakes with a good old Baddie Will Destroy Everything plot. It covers everything under this remit solidly.

We get well choreographed fighting scenes, well directed cinematography that frames it all beautifully without feeling cluttered or claustrophobic, the soundtrack to match it all and some good character development, especially in the Thor and Loki characters.

We also see some nice expansion into the Asgardian mythos and the domestic scenes with the fish out of water Jane Foster (Natalie Portman) filling in the de-

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tails of an otherwise broadly painted work.

Is this enough bang for your buck?

Sure it is.

Is it enough to be a great movie?

No.

The Dark Elves compulsive need to destroy the universe is unexplained. We are told they are bad, and that is that.

This leaves Chris Ecclestone playing a very haughty and threatening Malekith under too many prosthetics to convey emotion and without the characters true

motivation. A baddie neutered of motivation is not effective.

The more comic elements on Earth are nice to have, nothing more. The minutes could have been better spent in Asgard expanding the mythos, or putting some underlay under the thin plot to stop characters falling through it.

The final criticism is of the now renowned post credit scenes of any Marvel Film. The first will confuse non-comic fans and frustrate and anger the fans of the original material. The second would have been better as the closing scene of the film.

Worth seeing, just don’t expect to have your questions answered.

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LLORIS WAS PUT IN ‘ALL SORTS OF DANGER’ AFTER BEING ALLOWED TO STAY ON THE PITCH Joe Cooper Sports Editor

THE Hugo Lloris and Romelu Lukaku incident the other weekend caused quite the stir in the footballing world.

So much so, it’s lead to manager Andre Villas Boas and his Tottenham side being branded ‘irresponsible with a cavalier attitude’ by brain injury charity Headway.

The incident occurred at White Hart Lane in the Premier League clash between Tottenham and Everton. The imposing Lukaku, chased a loose ball that was eventually grasped by Tottenham keeper Loris before the Belgium’s momentum saw his left knee clatter into the head of the diving Lloris.

Despite Lloris not remembering the incident, the North London club allowed the Frenchman to stay on the pitch drawing a horde of criticism towards AVB’s side.

One of those in the criticism corner is UCLan’s very own Sport’s therapist lecturer Andy Cunningham who states it was ‘bad all round’ from the club that they allowed Lloris to continue on the pitch.

Andy, who is also qualified at FA and Premier League level, said “The FA guidelines are clear. Any loss of concussion and you should go off, you don’t go back on. There’s no way you can do an assessment in 5 minutes like they did of somebody who has lost consciousness.

It brings up all sorts of issues between the relationship of the coach and the medical team. Who makes the decision?

What’s the point in the medical staff being there if they’re going to get overruled?”

Despite the Portuguese manager claiming that the medical staff made the decision of keeping him on. UCLan’s therapist boffin thinks otherwise.

“I can’t imagine the medical staff would have said bring him off at all so he must have overruled them.”

“Lloris was put in all sorts of danger. If you’re concussed your skill levels drop and you’re not as aware or alert. So you

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might get yourself into the situation that you might not have previously put yourself into, furthering your chances of getting injured like even a second head injury.”

If I was in AVB’s position I would have easily brought him off. The things they are worried about with these type of situations is the secondary impact syndrome. This is where you have a head injury that sets off a lot of blood that might not be evident at the time but over a period of hours, days even sometimes weeks the bleeding can carry on.

If you have a second head injury that sets off a blood clot in the brain and you can get brain damaged.

There are also other issues like insurance. If when he went back on and got reinjured, who’s the one being negligent and who’s to blame? The coach? The club? The medical staff? It threw up not just issues of the management of him but the medical staff and the manager.”

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JASON KENNY

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LANCASHIRE’S very own Jason Kenny has been backed to rediscover his sprint form by Head of British cycling Sir Dave Brailsford.

Kenny, a three-time Olympic sprint champion failed to progress past the qualifying rounds of the individual sprint, in the first part of the Track Cycling World Cup in Manchester.

The 25-year-old Bolton born rider has not won an individual gold medal since his heroics at the Olympics in London 2012. However, Brailsford has given his full support to the British rider and backed him to recreate the form which won him Olympic accolades.

Shane Sutton, coach at British cycling also gave his backing to Kenny, "I think he has still got that element of speed. We need to go away and get him up the gears and into the bike race because he is faster than anybody on his day and that is what is missing.”

Laura Trott won the women’s omnium at the championships which are being held at Manchester Velodrome. She also helped the British women’s pursuit team break their own world record to win gold, the British men’s team also won gold in the same discipline.

Elsewhere in cycling, Sir Bradley Wiggins has become the latest sports star to sign up with Simon Fuller’s XIX Entertainment.

The Eccleston based rider has joined the management company with other clients including David Beckham and Lewis Hamilton.

According to Andy, normal procedure would include asking Lloris what in the medical world would call a series of basic questions, which is what Sports therapist students are taught at UCLan. These are a series of questions like what’s the score?

What half is it? And who were you playing last week?

“From what I’ve read he was confused. He couldn’t remember what happened so the medical staff have obviously asked those questions and he’s failed to answer those questions properly because he doesn’t remember what went on” “Clubs need to decide who makes the decision and it should be the doctor. The doctor says whether he goes on or not and the coach goes with that decision. He doesn’t second guess the doctor. He’s the manager not part of the medical staff”

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Frequency Football Presenter SO, it was a great start to this column last week as we kicked things off with a 7/1 winning double! Manchester City bashed seven goals past Norwich to ensure our (-2) handicap bet flew in.

The Welsh Derby on Sunday was, as predicted, a tight affair. Cardiff’s home advantage just about pulled them over the line with a 1-0 victory.

It’s great to land a winner on the first occasion, and I hope some readers got onboard!

If you did, I’d love to hear about it – you can tweet me at @MattHillMedia for any comments relating to the column. Let’s try and keep the 100% record up!

Weekend Football – 15th November So it just so happens that the upcoming weekend is a set of international fixtures. It’s easy to get greedy with an International Football accumulator, because your head tells you that most of the so-called “big countries” will get the job done. However, it is important to not let your heart rule your head, and stay sensible. Especially in the case of friendly matches.

After qualifying for Brazil 2014 with a pair of rousing performances, England host Chile at Wembley Stadium on Friday evening. Roy Hodgson’s men put in a pair of accomplished performances, to continue what is a formidable home record for the exLiverpool and West Brom boss. In 9 home games, England have won 7 – only failing to overcome Ireland and Ukraine in 1-1 draws.

It is also worth remembering that Roy Hodgson has yet to officially lose a match in normal time as England manager. The team are playing with a lot of confidence, and despite the South Americans being a capable attacking force, I think the home side will have a bit too much for them over 90 minutes. I’m willing to stick my neck on the line, and patriotically back England at a -1 handicap at a tasty 9/4.

For the second leg of the double, I’m looking to Amsterdam for the game between the Netherlands and Japan. One thing about betting on friendlies is being prepared for potentially heavy squad rotation, and whether or not the odds are still of good value if the team you’re betting on plays a weakened side. Whilst Japan are a decent test for the Dutch in a competitive or non-competitive fixture, the Dutch secondstring still possesses some of Europe’s finest attacking players. With the likes of Emanuelson, Strootman, Huntelaar and Van Ginkel on the fringes of the side, these games are a chance for them to prove a point. I expect the second-string to turn the Japanese over at a generous 4/7.

Selections – England (-1 Handicap) and Netherlands - Pays 9/2 as a double.

This week’s double turns over at 9/2. This means £1 would return you £5.50, and £5 would return you £27.50. Good luck if you choose to play.

Antepost Tips

Just a brief look at Antepost this week, and for a bit of fun, I’ve looked at the TV Talent Show markets. In X Factor, the bookies seem to think Sam Bailey has it in the bag, after she plummeted from 16/1 into 9/4 favourite. However, I think Tamera Foster offers great value at 3/1. She may have been in the bottom two already, but so had previous winners Alexandra Burke and Leon Jackson. It’s worth keeping the faith in the Beyonce lookalike at those odds! Play lightly on these markets however, as I’ve got a decent reason to believe these competitions are far from legitimate with the voting!

Search #FixedFactor on Twitter for more!

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UCLAN SECONDS LOSE OUT IN TOUGH CUP ENCOUNTER UCLAN BASKETBALL SECONDS SHEFFIELD HALLAM SECONDS

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THE seconds bowed out of the cup on Monday night after being convincingly beaten by a well drilled Sheffield team.

The away side raced out of the blocks early on in the first qautre, setting a high tempo which would be maintained to the very end of the game.

UCLan improved as the quatre went on and began to put some pressure on their opposition meaning come the end of the qautre they were still very much in the game, 17-18.

However a ruthless Sheffield side put their possession to good use in the second half splitting open the home sides somewhat static defence. Despite this Two great threes from David Banert meant they weren’t a million miles away

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at half time, at just 28-39.

The third quatre brought about more of the same. UCLan weren’t playing badly but Sheffield were being the far more critical side, taking their chances and therefore racking up the points giving them the momentum into the final period at 51-60 The last quatre gave the home fans something to smile about as they finally started to get the ball flowing and deliver some critical fast breaks but it was too little too late as UCLan found themselves crashing out of the cup, 61-83.

TEAMS UCLAN SECONDS COACH- D.Malcon Saxon, Walkin, Marko, Reece, Malone, Copson, Chtouki, Kaprikas, Moss. Farqharsson, Banert, Yao

Sports Writer

EVERY day, 890 people are diagnosed with cancer as life continues its cruel habit of dealing out a bad hand.

The sobering reality of Tranmere Rovers winger Joe Thompson being diagnosed with nodular sclerosing Hodgkin’s disease, a form of cancer serves only as a poignant reminder that life is short and should be cherished.

Although it is somewhat cliché, it does provide perspective and reminds us, as fans, that the players who go out onto the field wearing the shirt of our club every Saturday afternoon are human beings, too. Just like the rest of us.

Footballers are often accused of living in a bubble that separates them from the fans. The vast amount of money within the sport, particularly at the top, has taken the professional game away from its working class roots.

Long gone are the days of hopping onto the bus heading to the game only to see your star striker making the same journey. The players are no longer considered to be the equals of the fans; they have become the ‘superiors’. And far too many of them believe it.

Granted, the gulf is not as wide in League One as it is in the Premier League – Joe Thompson is no John Terry, – but during those moments when we

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laugh at the goalkeeper for dropping a cross, bawl at the defender for a slip.

Criticise the midfielder for missing a tackle or scream at the striker for missing a chance, we lose sight of the fact that footballers are the same as those sat in the stands.

Thompson, who at 24-years-old became a father last year would have had his world rocked by the news that he has cancer. Far too often it is assumed that footballers are immune to the same problems that could befall a cleaner, a builder or a lawyer.

It was only in July after making a positive impression in a number of pre-season friendlies that the winger was happy to give up his time to talk to me about his hopes of having a big impact in this campaign for Tranmere after a frustrating debut season following his move from Rochdale.

He began the competitive season well with a brace against Crawley, equaling his tally for the whole of last season, but football is not even a secondary matter to Thompson now. Rightfully, it falls well below his health and his family in terms of importance.

Fortunately, the illness has been caught at an early stage and puts Thompson in a good position to beat it.

The outpouring of support for the former Rochdale player is touching and has demonstrated the close-knit nature of the footballing community with tribalism temporarily cast aside.

The likes of Tom Cleverley (Manches-

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FLEETWOOD Town have extended the loan spell of Leeds United full-back Charlie Taylor until January.

The 20-year-old joined the Cod Army on a one-month deal in October and has made four appearances for Graham Alexander's side.

Taylor has had previous loan spells in England with Bradford, York and also

UNBEATEN... Despite the loss UCLan seconds are still unbeaten in the league

ter United), Aaron Cresswell (Ipswich Town) and Adebayo Akinfenwa (Gillingham) have all expressed their best wishes for Thompson on Twitter and the PFA are in talks with Tranmere about how they can best support him through his treatment.

Tranmere’s opponents in the first game after the news was made public, Preston North End, played their part by putting a picture of the winger on their scoreboard in the 7th minute. Rovers and North End fans alike paid tribute to the Tranmere number 7, who was in attendance, with a minute of applause.

Hopefully, after undergoing six months of chemotherapy, Thompson can make a full recovery and be back out on the field as soon as possible. In the meantime, all that is left to be said is good luck, Joe. You have the support of all Tranmere fans and all football fans in your battle.

Just remember, it can happen to anyone.

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CONTINUED FROM THE BACK PAGE THIS began a period of dominance for UCLan who now had more of the ball in midfield areas with a lot of the play coming through Viles. It wasn’t long before UCLan got their second and what proved to be the match winner.

A spell of territorial pressure culminated with attacker Chloe Pryden collecting the ball on the right wing and as she cut in she beat several Edge Hill defenders before crossing the ball into

A late Joe Garner header meant Preston North End grabbed a share of the spoils after Tranmere’s Chris Atkinson put the visitors ahead in a 1-1 draw.

Although the hosts controlled possession throughout the first half, it was the away side that looked more threatening on the counter attack. Abdulai Bell-Baggie broke from a PNE corner but blazed wide after wasting a good opportunity for Ronnie Moore’s men.

Ten minutes into the second-half however the away side that went ahead. Chris Atkinson splitting the PNE defence to send a cool finish into Rudd’s left hand post.

Almost out of nothing however, the home side snatched a late equalizer. A pin point cross from Stuart Beavon found the head of Garner, who fired past Fon Williams right hand post to deny Tranmere their second consecutive victory. the goal mouth. A scramble ensued with the already overworked Edge Hill goalkeeper Emma Dibdin forced into two saves but unable to prevent Anya Melville from forcing the ball over the line for UCLan’s second.

From this point it appeared as UCLan had control of the game. They were stunned however as Edge Hill captain Emily Cochrane burst forward out of nothing to give Chloe Hilton a simple finish to bring Edge Hill back into the game.

There were several nervy moments as the game neared its climax with UCLan ‘keeper Hannah Shore called into action numerous times but dealt with all shots impressively with the help of the defence in front of her.

UCLan return to Northern 3A League action next week against University of Manchester to the UCLan Sports Arena.

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JOE THOMPSON Player Profile AGE: 24 BORN: 5/03/89 POB: Rochdale POSITION: Midfielder APPS/GOALS FOR ROCHDALE 17 goals in 100 apps APPS/GOALS FOR TRANMERE 4 goals in 18 apps

went North of the border for a loan deal to Inverness Caledonian Thistle.

BURY have signed full-back Dean Howell on loan from League Two leaders Fleetwood Town until the 5th January.

It is the 32-year-old's second spell with the Shakers, having spent time at Gigg Lane during the 2008-09 season.

PRESTON NORTH END midfield duo John Mousinho and Ryan Croasdale are poised to go out on loan in order to get a taste of regular football.

Mousinho is on the move to Gillingham until the beginning of January after a frustrating spell at Deepdale.

Croasdale has joined Tamworth on an initial 28 day youth loan deal.

IRELAND RL who are based at UCLan for this years World Cup have lost both of their opening games to pretty much nsure they will be going home empty handed after a 32-14 defeat to Fiji and a 42-0 hammering from co-hosts England.

RAFAEL Nadal ensured he will end the

year as world number one with victory over Stanislas Wawrinka at the ATP World Tour Finals in London.

BARROW Raiders have signed Warrington Wolves' versatile youngster Scott Turner on loan.

The 19-year-old primarily plays on the wing but can also be used at either fullback or half-back.

He becomes the second player this week to move to for Craven Park, after prop forward Jack Morrison joined Barrow on Monday.

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STUDENTS PRAISED

By Joe Cooper

UCLAN Sports therapy students were hugely commended last week after two ambulances were called to treat three serious injuries in the same day.

The incidents happened on Wednesday 30th October at UCLan Sports Arena. One University of Chester student suffered a fractured ankle, another Chester student lost consciousness and had slight fits, and another suffered a dislocated shoulder.

UCLan Sports Therapist Lecturer Andy Cunningham who was working with the students whilst the incidents were taking place said “The students worked really well as part of a team.

The communication between them, me and the staff here was second to none.

It’s not good for the players for these things to happen, but in a way it’s good for us because we can practice. I don’t think any other university offers the service we do here for our home games, and the service injured players get is first class.”

The students were also applauded by The University of Chester for their conduct whilst treating two of their players.

“On behalf of everyone at the Chester Rugby League team, I would like to thank you and the rest of the sports therapy team that was involved in treating two of our lads. The care given to both lads was fantastic and we are all very grateful of the care and treatment given” Andy Cunningham added “Most weeks it’s mainly hamstrings and the odd nose bleed but sometimes we can get serious things like we did last week.

It was just one of those days where everything happened at once” The students have been trained with defibrillators and life support equipment so they are prepared for any scenario no matter how serious it may be.”

The fractured ankle student had surgery last Friday, whilst the concussed Rugby player was given medication to help deal with the concussion and blurred vision. All three students are now recovering and on the path to starring in their respected colours once again.

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THE second qautre saw UCLan start really well having adapted to Manchester’s pace a lot better and with that they began to control the play and execute some plays.As the period developed however, Manchester dragged themselves back into the game with some much needed points to make the game anyone’s ball game going into the second half.

UCLan came out the stronger team again, taking great control of their own key, packing it with men to deny the drive as well as some superb boxing out to claim some important defensive rebounds, something which had definitely been lacking in the first half.

In what would be an incredible series events at the end of the game all began in the third quatre when Sheffield man Mark’s appeared to intentionally foul Hodgson before putting his arm round the neck of the UCLan star but this incident only seemed to motivate him further as he went on to hit a superb three pointer to give the home side a slight lead going into the final quatre, 43-41.

The final qautre endrf on a high for UCLan but some pretty poor defending nearly cost them, as Manchester caused a ten point turn around going into the final second.

The rest is history as UCLan pulled off what will be a very memorable match for anyone who was lucky enough to witness it.

TEAMS UCLAN FIRSTS COACH- C.Wright Abdul- Latif, Lewis-Chambers, Hodgson, Jones, Low, Hunt, Mohammed, Graham +2 more need names MANCHESTER FIRSTS COACH-S.Merazada

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CRUCIAL MOMENT... Hodgson lines up for the third free throw with just 0.4 seconds on the clock

PNE CAPTAIN WELSH NAMED THE BEST IN THE NORTH-WEST Ellie Hamilton Sports writer

PRESTON North End captain John Welsh was named the League One Player of the Year at the North-West Football Awards on Monday night.

The North End skipper was delighted to receive the award following in the footsteps of last year’s winner and Preston team-mate David Buchanan, who also played together at Tranmere Rovers before signing for the Lilywhites in the summer of 2012.

Welsh battled off tough competition from ex-Crewe midfielder Luke Murphy and Sheffield United’s Jose Baxter, formerly of Oldham Althletic.

The award was an unexpected surprise for PNE’s number 19, as he believed that Luke Murphy was favourite for the honour.

The 29-year-old was a familiar face in the midfield during the 2012/13

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season, making 42 appearances and scoring nine goals in the Lilywhite jersey.

His performances throughout the season earned him the Player of the Season title at Preston’s end of season awards.

Welsh, a former Liverpool trainee, was one of a number of players with links to the Merseyside club who claimed an award at the ceremony staged at Lancashire Cricket Club.

Two other former Liverpool players Jamie Carragher and Jay Spearing won the Premier League and Championship Player of the Year award respectively as Jerome Sinclair claimed the Rising Star accolade.

Welsh was not the only Preston player to be nominated for the awards. Bailey Wright was also a contender for the Rising Star award, but didn’t make it into the final three.

The two nominations for North End mark an impressive season for the individuals although the club could only manage a fourteenth place finish after a disappointing campaign.

JOHN WELSH... League one’s North-west player of the year The Lancashire side, who currently sit fourth in League One after a good start to the season, will be hoping to take this

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impressive momentum into the coming weeks as a tricky test against table toppers Leyton Orient awaits.

Brain teasing riddles A boat is sailing on the ocean. Inside the boat is an upright ladder.

The water level is rising two rungs per minute.

How many rungs will be covered after five minutes

Answer: None. The laddr is inside the boat and the boat is rising with the water level.

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UCLAN Womens Hockey first team are through to the next round of the Northern Conference Cup after overcoming a plucky Edge Hill side at UCLan Sports Arena last Wednesday afternoon.

The team will now face the winner of the of the tie between University of Manchester 5th and Manchester Metropolitan University 4th team in the last 32 of the tournament.

UCLan, a division higher than their opponents, went two goals up early in the second half before being pegged back by Edge Hill and being forced to hang on to their precious lead.

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Captain Lauren Viles dismissed the idea that UCLan had expected to win purely due to their higher standing.

She said “It was a good team performance, I’m really proud of the girls. They are top of their league but I wasn’t really sure how good they would be.

There wasn’t much difference in standard.”

After a fairly even first half which included chances for both sides, UCLan made the breakthrough just minutes after the restart. A penalty corner was pulled back to Viles who controlled, dribbled around two of her opponents and shot into the corner of the goal via a deflection.

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UCLAN FIRSTS 65 MANCHESTER UNI 60

Steven Smith at the Sir Tom Finney Sports centre

UCLAN pulled off a remarkable win against Manchester after Alex Hodgson kept his nerve netting three simultaenous free throws with just 0.4 seconds remaining.

It was low scoring but what it lacked in points it made up for in entertainment as two truly passionate sides locked horns. Tempers were blown, threes were hit and not to mention an impressive dunk from UCLan’s Jermaine Lewis-Chambers In what was a frankly remarkable last thirty seconds of regulation time, Sheffield scored two free throws of their own to get things going and open up what looked an unassailable three point gap. The game looked all but over before point guard Jack Hudson burst through forcing a foul from the fatigued opposition, winning two free throws with three seconds on the clock.

He missed them both but a strong rebound from a resilient UCLan side saw the ball switched to Hodgson but as he prepared to attempt to hit a game saving three

he was sandwiched by two opposition players and the call was given but there was still a lot to do and he did it almost inch perfect.

UCLan then had the momentum and confidence going into five minutes of overtime and began to really dominate the play. Moving the ball with real purpose racking up some points to put the game away including two more free throws from Hodgson and a delicious three from Maz Abdul-Latif.

In what was a hard evenings work for UCLan, they made a good start winning the first qautre of the game 12-9 but the signs of a tough game were there as Manchester tried to set a low tempo and hit their shots close to the end of the shotclock whereas UCLan deployed a more direct approach which worked as long as they were ruthless on defence which they were.

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