Canterbury Connected: March 2011

Tuesday, 22 March 2011

Weekly workshop brings together students

Moving to a new country can be quite a daunting experience, but moving to study is an even more scary experience.

After the news that UKC lecturers are striking today and tomorrow, and Christ Church lecturers are potentially doing the same on Thursday, we've been asking students at Canterbury Christ Church University what they think of these proposed strikes.

Kent university students launched 300 lanterns to the Canterbury night sky in a protest against building taking place on Chaucer Fields. Laura Kerrigan and Rebecca Dart investigate.

For the first time this year Canterbury Christ Church students can now enter the Virgin Media 'SHORTS' competition, which could win them £30,000 funding to work with Virgin media and create a new film.

Canterbury's two main universities are to be hit with lecturer strikes this week. JAMIE FELTHAM, JAMES CROUCH, LAURA KERRIGAN and REBECCA DART investigate.

A campaign to save Whitstable sorting office from closure has picked up the pace.

Friday saw Comic relief raising a record £74,360,207 with the public finding different ways of doing something funny for money.

A 91-year-old woman from Maidstone lost more than £7,000 to a telephone bank scam.

Canterbury based band strike a chord at '100 Club'

Whitstable Town FC has hit out against “cowardly” thieves who stripped the clubs copper piping and created £5,000 worth of damage.

Cookham Wood Prison has been seriously criticised in a new report, which says it is failing to reach required standards.

Funding a war isn't cheap and may be one of the reasons the public may not be swayed to donate money to a good cause.

It's nearly summer ball season, meaning universities are starting to reveal their line ups for a night of music and partying.

Maidstone Rugby Club have dropped their appeal against their fine and penalty given to them after an opponent lost his sight in his right eye in a match.

The census has been sent out this month however not everyone is filling it in and getting it sent off.

From a competition of 273 teams from over 100 universities, five students from Canterbury Christ Church University are now one of the last 10 groups competing to win the IBM Universities Business Challenge, as well as the reward of £1,000.