Category: Reporting (News and Features)

For some students, getting that vital first hand experience with a dream career can seem miles out of reach. What do you want to be? A West End director? A Polar Bear conservationist? A hot air balloon designer? With a little hard work, commitment and enthusiasm, at least one of those career paths isn’t that far fetched.   Most of us don’t have a complete plan, or if we do, it’s just a case of blind luck, a – hit-swing-and-a-miss-lets-hope-for-the-best – kind of setup. Or at least, that’s what it’s like for me.   In the case of this piece the situation is slightly different, if only ever so slightly, still it’s worth a shot.   Molly Burdett is a first year English student at the University of York and aspiring director, someone that I’ve known for the better part of a decade. And she ALWAYS has a plan. That is, without fail.   If you knew her like I do, the fact that she has already been...

Protestor’s have gathered in St Helen’s square in a bid to voice their disagreement with President Trumps Muslim ban, before marching through the city. Residents of York carried out the unplanned march yesterday after hundreds of protestors gathered to hear speakers including Rachel Maskell, MP for York Central, as well as student representatives and veteran campaigners. Media student Reece Dunn had this to say about Donald Trump on the day: “We all thought it was a joke, and now it’s real and funnily enough everything that he said he was gonna do, he’s doing and now people are angry… I’ve never been to a march before, this is the first thing I’ve ever felt strongly about.” Labelled an ‘emergency demonstration’, York Momentum (the organisers) asked members of public to arrive for 5.00 PM to display signs and their discontent with the actions of the Trump administration. The triggered factor being the 90-day immigration ban brought in by President Donald Trump’s recent executive order that blocked...