Epigram investigates the surprising gender divide in the Bristol's academic community

Even in 2008, academia still conjurs images of musty oak rooms and elderly men in tweed jackets. Although time has helped to improve this ima...

There's nothing quite like a leisurely stroll on an unseasonably sunny afternoon. And in Bristol, the city which heaves with green spaces and bijou townhouses, there are a thousand and one excuses for it. Yet somehow the f...

Mechanical engineering student Hannah Mills has won the 2008 Women's Junior World Championships (470 Class) after victory in Gdynia, Poland.

Along with her partner, Katrina Hughes, Hannah won the title by a considerable margin of fourteen points ...

The Cabot Circus website proudly announces that the mall is 'more than just a shopping experience- it's returning to its rightful place on Centre Stage.' Considering it is far from the ideal time to open a £500 million shopping centre, one can hardly be surprised that the prom...

In January, NME got it right for once, naming Foals as one of eleven "New Noise" bands that would come to define 2008. They also cited the Ting Tings and Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong, but that's by the by. But now, towards the culmination of an expansive 18-month ...

As the release of Quantum of Solace racks up the ticket sales, Ben Welch asks if the Bond franchise is still relevent in cinema

Let's face it, the inimitable James Bond is getting on a bit these days. As a movie character he's a hale and hearty 46 years old. If you're a r...

The new series of Spooks is launched and we loook at what the excitement is about

The seventh series of Spooks is in full stride after an explosive return to the BBC's prime time slot on Sunday 28th October. A BBC Drama spokesperson promised us "more high-octane oper...

Nothing encapsulates the idea of fashion meeting music more than a retail store party, and Topman recently hosted its very own to celebrate the launch of the new Cabot Circus store. It was an ingenious twist to publicise the event as a house party and the secret location was t...

He's Not Lost Control

In 1980, with England in the grip of recession, Ian Curtis sang "Love, love will tear us apart" at what would be his last ever live gig in Birmingham. Clinically depressed, and with his marriage and health failing, Curtis hanged himself in his kitchen. Twenty years o...