Gair Rhydd

40 Thieves

Huge police operation leads to arrest of dozens of crooks who target student properties

A police operation that resulted in the arrests of more than 40 people will spell good news for students.

Police in Cardiff arrested more than 40 people over a 24-hour period between midnight on Wednesday May 27 and midnight on Thursday May 28.

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Sent to Purgatory

Cardiff University has distanced itself from Father John Owen, one of the University chaplains, since gair rhydd published controversial comments that he made live on television in May.

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Business exam blunder

Second-year Business Management students were left disappointed after an unexpected error occurred on their exam paper.

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900 Issues: The future's bright

It could have all been so different. On October 25th 1993, gair rhydd published probably its sparsest edition ever. There was no news; no sport; no opinion; no features. Just a plea for students to protest against suggested National Students’ Union reforms that would end funding for, among other activities, student media.

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900 Issues: Cartoon controversy

The Muhammad cartoons printed in the Danish broadsheet newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, caused controversy and debate on a scale that has arguably never before been seen in the journalism industry. Protests, armed raids on international European offices and foreign diplomats being ordered to leave the country were just some of the repercussions of the now infamous Danish cartoons.

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The Word On... whether Carlo Ancelotti can deliver elusive European glory to Chelsea

BECOMING THE fifth Chelsea manager in two seasons may be something of a poisoned chalice for the incumbent Carlo Ancelotti: he will be charged with succeeding where Mourinho et al. have failed.

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