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31 Jan 1997

The fourths are now officially top of the league. With all the other Imperial football teams struggling we are surely the best football team in Imperial. This will be confirmed when we win BUSA(!), and sooner still beat the IC seconds in a challenge match in few weeks time.

Chris scored in the first minute of the match and we never looked back. The graceful Morgan danced through to score, and the rotund Darren slotted another home with our defence hardly troubled. Surely we will walk this league as Champions .

IC IVs 3 - 0 QMWC

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31st Jan 1997

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Pigs roasted by C & G

In C&G’s maiden match of ‘97 the boys proved that their Christmas holiday fitness programme had truly paid off. Our most brilliant play came in the first half when Forest Gate Police station’s "substantial" pack were overwhelmed by a fitter and keener side. The

Glorious defeat for IC Virgins

Despite a slow first 10 minutes, the weeks of line-out practice paid off for the Virgins, when Ellen caught an excellent throw in with the superb lifting help from Mo and Lucy. There followed a series of quick penalties by Sarah C., Becky and Ellen leading to an "International

Poetic muse but IC still lose

The football seconds’ early season optimism for a quick return to the top flight has been slowly ebbing away since late November when a slump in form and fortune replaced the zeal and steel, three meals and John Peel. Keen to stop the rot hot-shot, shut-up shop and have a

Uncensored full bore action at Bisley with the IC shooters

The first trip of the year to Bisley, the home of full-bore rifle shooting was held on Saturday the l9th of January. Twelve intrepid shooters set off for what was for most of them their first taste of outdoor rifle and long range pistol shooting. The morning consisted of shooting

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Marty Supreme

Josh Safdie’s nerve-shredding period thriller lives and dies on a career-best Timothée Chalamet performance you can’t shake.

Books

White Nights

Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s short novella revolving around loneliness, unrequited love, and dreams still resonates with our society today. The nameless narrator of White Nights, a lonely young man, meets Nastenka, a young woman with whom he forms a strong relationship, yet they promise to keep it friendly rather than romantic.

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Demonstrators and police officers injured as Iran embassy protests escalate further

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Pigs roasted by C & G

Glorious defeat for IC Virgins

Poetic muse but IC still lose

Uncensored full bore action at Bisley with the IC shooters

Golden Globes 2026

Marty Supreme

White Nights

Demonstrators and police officers injured as Iran embassy protests escalate further