A group of York students has won the opportunity to have their very own I-phone application developed after winning The App Challenge final, held at the Ron Cooke Hub on Wednesday, January 18.
YUSU Welfare officer Bob Hughes has warned students to be vigilant after a student loans phishing scam has been revealed.
Her Majesty the Queen will be visiting York on Maundy Thursday, 5th April, as part of the 800th anniversary of York’s Charter for the traditional “Royal Maundy” ceremony.
A flood caused by a heating system “failure” forced the university IT services to shut down many essential systems on Sunday night, causing problems for many students on the eve of their exams and assignment due-dates.
Ben Pointing said: "I was sitting upstairs and the whole room began to shake. I stood up and thought at first that someone was running up the stairs. Then I thought, shit. This is an earthquake."
The quake was felt in most big cities across England, including in Nottingham, Liverpool and Leeds. The US Geological Survey website has named the epicentre as 30 miles south of Kingston upon Hull.
At the time of writing the Yorker can confirm that the quake has been felt by hundreds of students across York, many of whom expressed alarm at being woken up.
Yorker Videocast Editor Jo Shelley said: "I was asleep and began dreaming that a big man was shaking the house. When I woke up I couldn't figure out how he was doing it."
Reports on Sky News are coming in that the earthquake was felt in Northampton and Warwickshire as well.
Please post your stories about the moment you realised you were in a quake below!
"I was asleep and began dreaming that a big man was shaking the house." Nice Jo, nice...
Not quite sure if you can claim an earthquake as an exclusive...!
Yeah I was gonna say, gold star for submitting the article approx. 2 mins after the actual event like, but it's not really 'breaking' news since it seems everyone obviously new about it first hand anyways...
but some of us thought it was big men! (me too Jo 
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Who claimed it as an exclusive? If so the wheels of the legal process should already be in motion!
Walking around Canary Wharf today, rumours were at large that Clifford Chance are preparing their law suit...
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