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Students concern about tuition fees and international student …
Sep 19, 2024 — Follow @SW_Londoner. Students at Kings College London (KCL) have expressed concerns about universities’ bid to raise tuition fees and implementing limits on international student intake. KCL is ...
Why American sports continue to grow in popularity in the UK
Jul 8, 2021 — In a survey of 2,032 sports fans in the UK, conducted by the Good Form Group, a whopping 94% said they were aware of NFL games being played in the UK, compared to 54% for the NBA and 49% for the ...
Keir Starmer has said his dad’s a toolmaker almost 30 times in four ...
Jul 3, 2024 — Keir Starmer has said his dad’s a toolmaker at least 29 times since 2020, with over half of the mentions in the last year alone. Starmer, whose father did indeed work in a factory as a tool ...
NFL franchises you should support based on your football team …
Feb 4, 2022 — Baltimore Ravens = Sheffield United. The shared trait of these two teams is their strong defence. Chris Wilder’s Blades built a European challenging side in 2019/20 based on a solid foundation ...
"Lives Not Knives": tackling Wandsworth knife crime one blade at …
Apr 13, 2021 — Scotland Yard data shows that between 2018-2019, Wandsworth was responsible for 47% of all knife-related crimes across south west London, including the boroughs of Kingston, Merton, Richmond. The ...
The Football Black List spearheads representation in the beautiful …
Mar 5, 2024 — The Football Black List 2023 awards ceremony took place last month at Battersea Arts Centre. Founded by Leon Mann MBE and Rodney Hinds in 2008, the ceremony celebrates the achievements of black ...
How an ex-drug smuggler found light amongst the darkness
Feb 1, 2021 — FAMILY. Michael Emmett, 62, is a father of three and grandfather of seven, who found God in prison following an arrest in Devon for smuggling five tonnes of cannabis into the UK. You would think ...
Chelsea and Fulham witness historic count as Labour takes …
5 July 2024. Maya Mehrara. Follow @SW_Londoner. As the last constituency in central London to be counted, at 6am Chelsea and Fulham swung Labour for the first time in its history. Since its ...
Reassessing English cricket’s dependence on the ‘private school ...
By Will Cracknell May 12 2020, 21.00 Follow @SW_Londoner. The accusation that professional English cricket is the preserve of the privately-educated is often thrown around like an errant delivery ...