An unnamed first year English student was hurried to hospital yesterday during the SUSU Freshers Fayre held on campus. We are unclear of the cause, though the student’s flatmate told Slightly Soton that “she had just been eating all the freebees”

A survey conducted over the past few days has proved that around 86% of new students at the University of Southampton do not actually know where the campus is, or not locate it on a map. The results, published by the Southampton University Survey & Demographics Society (SUSDS), present a potentially worrying outlook for the University recently ranked as the 75th best in the world.

Hoards of new undergraduate students moved into Southampton University halls of residence over the weekend. The 7,000 or so “freshers” will now enjoy a fortnight of mayhem with events spanning from nights out to tiddlywinks competitions.

Buzz around the web today is that for the first day since 2005, social network Facebook has not updated, changed or re-designed any of its features. The social networking site is popular amongst it’s near 8 trillion users, whom all today revolted at the news.

The infamous plan for a monorail in Southampton has finally been given the go-ahead. Planning permission that had been in consultation for the past 20 months were granted by Southampton City Council today.

Slightly Soton has learned that the popular ‘Lord Of The Rings’ themed pub, The Hobbit, is to be rebranded in the light of the venue’s recent takeover. Instead, the new landlord speaking in an exclusive interview to Slightly Soton, said that japanese franchise Pokemon would be the new theme.

Public service broadcaster ITV plc announced today that their catch-up service ITV1+1 is in actual fact identical to their digital channel ITV2. The announcement was made at a press conference this morning after a freedom of information request was sent from executives at Channel 4+1.

It has been revealed that Southampton City Council is to start charging the city residents for breathing, installing a human air meter into every resident. It comes just a few days after the news that Southern Water is to install water meters to all houses in the Southampton region.

Statistics revealed today show that students at Southampton Solent University achieved higher average results than students at Southampton University. The average result at Southampton was 62.4%, a low 2:1, whereas Solent was 71.3%, a first, with the highest results in the ‘Retarded Disabilities with Licking Windows BSc’ course.