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A list of the UK's top ten universities according to students has been revealed, with London ranking lowest for overall student satisfaction. Only St Mary’s University in Twickenham made the top ten, which was topped by Harper Adams University in Shropshire after a nationwide student vote. Loughborough University slipped to second place after being championed University of the Year in 2015, with Harper Adams also taking the top spot in the ‘Job Prospects’ and ‘Student Support’ categories. Welsh universities performed well. Swansea University...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor In the early hours of Thursday morning two Iranian men were rescued in an inflatable dinghy in the English Channel, after the light from one of their mobile phones was seen by a passing ship. The pair may have been out at sea for up to eight hours before they were plucked out of the water. The two people had already made an emergency 999 call from their 10ft vessel. The men, who were cold...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor By 2020 schools could be looking at a £7.5billion budget shortfall by 2020, the Labour party has announced. The black hole in education finances could lead to large scale redundancies and could mean class sizes could increase. The news has come as analysts have said that schools ware facing their first real term cuts since the 90s. Lucy Powell, Shadow Education Secretary, said: “Whilst the Tories try to pretend that they are protecting school budgets,...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor People in the capital will need to earn over £100k a year by 2020 to purchase their first home according to a report by housing and homelessness charity Shelter. First time buyers will need an average deposit of £138,000 to keep up with the staggering rise in house prices in the capital. Campbell Robb, Shelter’s Chief Executive, said: “When house prices are increasing fifteen times faster than the average wage, it’s no wonder Londoners on...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor After decades of looking for the Loch Ness Monster, a research team came across this shape on their radar. Had they found the most famous and most illusive creature on the planet? Well, no, they haven’t. It turns out the shape was in fact a film prop from the 1970s. Nessie hunters will have to continue their search. The prop is believed to have come from a film shoot for The Private Life Of Sherlock...

Every Saturday at 9am, tens of thousands of runners in 850 locations across 12 countries head to their local park to compete in the Parkrun. Founded on the ethos of being free and open to everyone, Parkrun is not for the uber-competitive racers, it's not for the casual joggers or even the newbs. It's for everyone, and that's the beauty of it. Taking part couldn't be simpler. You register on its website, print off a unique barcode and then turn up on a...

Look at photos of Irish women from the 1950s and '60s and you'll see plenty of covered heads. Women of all ages wore wool shawls pulled over their heads as they went about their daily chores, bustling children off to school, buying fresh fish at little stalls or rushing off to mass. Some Irish women are old enough to remember and some still won't go into a church with uncovered hair. When France's prime minister Manuel Valls said Muslim headscarves...

Pictures have been released by the US Navy showing Russian fighter jets making a dangerously close pass over the guided missile destroyer USS Donald Cook. The ship was 'buzzed' on April 11, 2016 in the Baltic Sea by a pair of Sukhoi Su-24 Fencer fighters. Pictures released on US Navy Twitter show just how close they came. A statement followed, saying: “On April 11, Donald Cook was conducting deck landing drills with an Allied military helicopter when two Russian SU-24 jets made numerous,...

The official Leave and Remain camps for the EU referendum have been named as Vote Leave and Britain Stronger in Europe. Vote Leave saw off challenges from Grassroots Out, backed by UKIP leader Nigel Farage. The decision will come as a kick in the teeth for the UK Independence Party, which was campaigned since its inception for an independent United Kingdom, only to be pipped at the post by Boris Johnson and Michael Gove who backed to Vote Leave campaign. That...