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28Feb

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Student's Union

UPSU Election Disclaimer

When deciding how we will make the UPSU elections fair for all candidates, we devised seven questions which covered nearly all of the topics that need to be discussed, as well as an opportunity to send a photo of themselves and a video lasting a minute as part of the #MinuteToWinIt campaign. To show true transparency here are the candidates who did not send us their answers to our questions: Joseph Dasari - President Candidate Madeline Morton - VP Activities Candidate You can read their manifestos at upsu.com. If there are any concerns regarding our coverage please email editorial at editor@plymouthgazette.co.uk and tracy.priestman@su.plymouth.ac.uk so we can discuss everything. Happy voting!

Plymouth Gazette Voted to Become An Official Society!

BY JOSH MARR At 07:20pm on 07/09/20, Plymouth Gazette was officially voted in as a Student Society at the University of Plymouth by society leaders in this evening's Society Forum. This means that you, the students, are able to become members of Plymouth Gazette for the minimal cost of £10 per academic year, with a one off £3 Student's Union joining fee, to write, be creative and learn with us from September. The Forum Plymouth Gazette passed with flying colours through the Societies Forum with 80% of the vote in favour of us, and answering questions from Debate and GovSoc about editorial independence and how we will allocate the funds we get from members. PG's answers were, in a nutshell, that we absolutely do have editorial independence, championed by Verity Lemm (VP Activities...

Sports Clubs Dependant on the Life Centre may Suffer into 2021

BY JOSH MARR A Plymouth Herald article last week revealed that the Life Centre will be closed for “essential repairs” until at least April 2021, leaving the survival of some sports clubs in question. The Everyone Active-owned facility has been open for eight years and supports at least six sports clubs as their facility, on top of the free student swimming sessions and countless other local sports clubs and teams. "It's been announced at the worst possible time" Max Kimble, Chairman of the Plymouth Mantas told Plymouth Gazette, "we had a really successful year last year in terms of gaining more paying members than ever before [...] this closure could send us back to where we were five years ago; struggling to get students interested and worrying about not being able to continue." Th...