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The Mermaids Performing Arts Fund is transitioning from being a part of the Students’ Association subcommittee network to a society following the creation of the new Performing Arts Network.

A major emergency response was launched at East Sands on Tuesday morning, 14 April, after a bloodied T-shirt was discovered on the pier, Coastguard crews confirmed to The Courier.

Glitterball — the annual student-run formal ball known as the first fully LGBTQ+ inclusive event of its kind in the UK — will be discontinued after its 2026 iteration.

Member of the University of St Andrews Golf Performance Squad Ellie Monk won the individual stroke play title at the 2025 St Andrews Links Collegiate, an event spanning from 13 to 15 October.

Former kebab shop Big Boss and ice cream shop Little Boss owner Ugur ‘Jack’ Emre was convicted on 14 October by the Dundee Sheriff Court for “sexual assault of a minor, making non-consensual sexual remarks, supplying children with alcohol, licensing offences, and forcing young staff to work during a restricted …

On the evening of Friday 10 October, an altercation occurred between a belligerent customer and the general manager of Mozza, the Italian restaurant located on Bell Street. No customers or staff members were injured.

“I'm trying to understand the depth of emotion, resentment, and feeling that this arouses on the part of both people who think that the statues are racist and doing harm, and the people who think that taking them down is in some way a deep attack on them,” said Dr …

Three St Andrews PhD students were invited to the Europeaum event, held at the Complutense University of Madrid between 4 and 7 February, to present their mobile app, ‘WillCO2s’. The app allows users to track the carbon emissions of research activity, currently centred around three main areas: experiments, travels, and …

While the society gained affiliation with the St Andrews Student Union in January 2025, Claire Waskow and Petra Pender, co-founders of WIP, started generating the idea for the society much earlier in the academic year. However, it was the United States presidential election that ultimately catalysed the creation of the …

The Old Vic, a centre of student nightlife in St Andrews, underwent renovations throughout January, re-launching on 22 January, 2024. Having been named Fife’s Best Bar of 2022 in the National Pub & Bar Awards, what was once The Vic’s main dance floor is now a restaurant filled with permanent …

The Old Vic, a centre of student nightlife in St Andrews, underwent renovations throughout January, re-launching on 22 January, 2024. Having been named Fife’s Best Bar of 2022 in the National Pub & Bar Awards, what was once The Vic’s main dance floor is now a restaurant filled with permanent …

University staff took part in a sea dip to mark International Women's Day and raise money for Fife Women’s Aid. Donations totalled almost £800.

Fife Council has pledged a quarter of a million pounds to the restoration of the once picturesque Dutch Village in Craigtoun Country Park.

It was 3 am, that most oppressive and black time of night. Stillness enveloped my room, the shutters drawn, a pile of books on my desk, a jacket over the back of my chair. Small, familiar things: the quiet comforts of unthinking life. But darkness hung over me heavily, the …

On Wednesday 7 February, around 200 students and members of the community peacefully marched around St Andrews to demonstrate “visible support for Palestine.”

The University of St Andrews opened applications for the first round of its 2024 Community Fund, which financially supports grassroots projects and charities in Fife.

Running until 4th February 2024 at the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum in Madrid, the Women Masters exhibition promises to correct history by shining a light on successful female artists who have been occluded from the Western art historical canon. Curated by Rocío de la Villa, it features nearly 100 works by …

“God is dead''. Nietzsche’s brutal cry still rings with an apocalyptic tenor when stamped in black ink on the page; and whilst I am no longer an existentially-angst ridden teenager, I nevertheless find myself in agreement with him here. God is dead — and we are responsible...

At the venerable age of 22, in my final year of university, my future lies before me. Unlike my female forebears, this horizon of mine is a glittering and precious thing — it glimmers with freedoms they could never have dreamed of. The choice between career and family is no …

As a self-professed luddite, I’m staunchly anti-AI. I steer well-clear of Chat GPT, which I’m pretty certain will be considered the beginning of the death of original thought in 100 years time. Aside from the ‘share password’ feature on iPhones which is an undeniable gift to mankind, I fear what …

Along with everyone and their grandmother, I tucked into Netflix’s new Beckham documentary last week, which chronicles David’s Beckham’s eventful football career. Aside from his on-field achievements and faux pas, his relationship with Victoria Beckham features heavily in the series. By the final episode I was shocked at quite how …

At a recent dinner party, I made the mistake of casually letting slip that I hail from Lancaster, in the north west of England. A shiver passed through the room, accompanied by horrified gasps from round the table. One brave soul broke the stunned silence: “gosh, you don’t seem northern”...

At this year’s London Fashion Week Burberry opened a pop-up at Norman’s Cafe in North London, with potato smiley faces and ketchup served to attendees. Their use of a greasy spoon cafe to advertise and showcase their SS24 collection has been denounced by some as a fetishisation of working class …

Not for the first time in his life, Russell Brand has seen his name and image plastered across newspapers in recent weeks. A host of allegations are levelled against him, pertaining to sexual assault, rape, harassment, and stalking. The accusations are serious and, if true — which Brand denies — …

I was introduced to Amy Winehouse through some arguably questionable parenting, with my mum blasting the Back to Black album on a boombox every time my sister and I took a bath. While some would frown upon a 5-year-old knowing all the lyrics to “Rehab”, I for one am grateful …

After months of relentless “he’s just Ken” marketing and complaints from male critics deeming it “man-hating” quickly rolling in, I was hopeful as I took my seat for the Barbie movie, excited for what promised to be a feminist feat of cinema. In my eyes, Greta Gerwig could do no …

In an interview on Steven Bartlett’s Diary of a CEO podcast, comic and actor Seth Rogen shared how upset he was after receiving bad reviews for his films The Green Hornet and The Interview: “I think if most critics knew how much it hurt the people that made the things …

After briefly shaking our heads, expressing quiet sighs of dismay and commenting that ‘something really must be done’, most of us move on after hearing such staggering statistics. Mr Fernando Morales de la Cruz –– a human rights activist, journalist, and social entrepreneur, who spoke last Saturday at a TEDx …

In the grand old year of 2023, no women were nominated for Artist of the Year at the BRIT Awards, no women will headline Glastonbury, and no women were nominated for Best Director at the Oscars. If we’ve moved beyond the need for gendered awards categories, why are so few …

Whilst book-burning is thankfully an image from a bygone era, the banning and challenging of books remains a chilling reality. In the 2021-22 school year more than 2,500 books were banned by 138 school districts in the United States, with books both about and by LGBTQ+ and Black people disproportionately …