News in Brief

The Royal School of Mines won the "bottle match" against the Cambourne School of Mines last Saturday. That evening, the Union bar was packed, and some of the fixtures sustained a significant amount of damage. Two tables were trashed, one with its top smashed, the other had its legs broken.

There was another incident when a large shield was pulled down from the wall, damaging the wall in the process.

Full Bottle-Match report next week

BAND BANNED

One of the bands that played in last week’s "Abandon" were told to watch their behaviour if they wanted to play again at the Union. POG, the first band out of four to play on Friday night, were reprimanded after their lead singer pretended to light up a spliff on stage at the end of their performance.

Mark Horne, the Union Ents manager, explained,. "We are currently applying for a public entertainments license, and we need to keep a snow-white clean reputation. The Union has put a lot of money into this venture. The application itself cost about Ł4,000, as well as spending almost Ł100,000 on dBs to bring it up to standard. Our application is now being processed, and we are at the stage where we can be inspected at any time. A licensing officer may not have seen the joke. It would have been a pity for the behaviour of one person to have jeopardised all this with one childish gesture. It was a very silly thing to do."

The band insist that it was simply meant as a joke, and were surprised at the reaction they provoked.

However, Mark did concede, "It was a very good pretend spliff, though."

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