This week’s sports pages see a welcome contribution from the chess and bridge clubs. Perhaps this will encourage more of the "alternative" sports clubs to write material as well.
This weekend sees the swordsmen going for national BUSA glory, and the football firsts and fourths furthering their respective title challenges. See you next week, possibly
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Explore the editionLast weekend the IC Novice Squad raced at the Hammersmith Double Header. The course was from Chiswich to Hammersmith, and despite some rough and windy conditions all our crews performed very well. the men’s novice A crew won their category by a minute and a half and obtained an
Anyone awake on the morning of Saturday February the twenty-second would be forgiven for thinking that they had walked onto the set of "Night of the living dead." A group of pale, dishevelled creatures staggered, as if in a trance, descended on the sports centre. In fact this
By Saiful Alam The long awaited OSC 5-a-side football tournament finally took place on Sunday 16th February. The event was sponsored by Sport and Leisure (aka - IC Sports Centre). Only eight societies turned up with squads on the day, but the favourites were all there. Some of the others
After a marathon five hour journey we reached Hull, which put the team off, except maybe Alasdair who found the Humber Bridge "exciting." After 45 minutes of traipsing through the most dismal town in the North, we eventually found the pitch thanks to Tom’s unerring direction sense.
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Prince Harry toured Imperial College’s Centre for Blast Injury Studies (CIS) on Wednesday 10th September, as part of a four-day trip to London. The King’s youngest son, who was deployed to Afghanistan twice during his time in the British Army, had already visited the CIS in the past;
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Severe blackouts disrupted the Iberian Peninsula for 16 hours on 28th April. We answer common questions on blackouts and how renewables will affect energy grids and a new report from Spain shares the latest in their analysis of the causes of the blackouts.
Environment
“I’m positive. I’m always positive. When people talk about collapses, that’s great opportunity to actually change stuff”, Fernando explained to me. He had recently narrowly escaped his house burning down in a wildfire in Portugal. In Europe, increasingly severe wildfires are creating space for change. However, unless
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Imperial Community Safety and Security (CSS) officers have started a four-week trial of wearing Body-Worn Cameras (BWC) on patrol duty since Wednesday 20th August. According to Imperial’s BWC code of practice, the policy aims at enhancing on-campus “safety and wellbeing” as well as protecting security staff from inaccurate allegations.