Dizzee Rascal interview

Backstage at Beachbreak festival The Ripple met up with a less than chatty Dizzee Rascal to talk about his new album and robbing pizza delivery boys.
R: Hi Dizzee
D: Hi
R: Ok, so, you’ve got a new album coming out in September?
D: Yeah, Tongue ‘n’ Cheek
R: Can you tell me a bit about it?
D: Er, yeah. Basically it’s
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Ryan Earnshaw – Awarding yourself bonuses in the form of shares…

So the banks went bust, now what? – Ryan O’Hare

Everybody must know by now about the credit crunch and how our banks have been bailed out by the government for lending stupid amounts of money to people who couldn’t afford it. It’s been talked about so relentlessly in the media; and in our economics lectures that, frankly, the issue is becoming rather dull and
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Broadband paced at carter speed – Sam Morris

There is no doubt the continual advances in digital technology are a fantastic achievement, linking the University of Leicester to the rest of Britain and beyond. The current Government is certainly one of the leading exponents of these tools, resulting in extraordinary plans for Broadband connections in ‘every home by 2012’. Nevertheless, the interim
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Style over Substance – Adam Langley

After eight years, one or two questionable wars, and numerous parodies, the Bush Administration is finally bowing out. Barack Obama was officially inaugurated on January the Twentieth, and America did not hold back as it welcomed its new President. Inaugural Balls were held all over the United States, and tickets to the ceremony itself
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‘Graduates adapt to crunch’ – Shelley DeBere

The word graduation alone is enough to turn even the most prepared and organized student into a blind panic. Now we are facing a far more complicated and bigger challenge. With the current dismal economic climate and Gordon Brown doing all that he can to battle the rising unemployment rates, what are the options for
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Leicester’s crowning glory

The Ripple was granted unprecedented access to the Queen’s historic visit to the University of Leicester, marking the opening of the award-winning, £32m David Wilson Library.
What started as a gloomy Thursday morning quickly brightened up upon the Queen’s arrival, as sunshine broke through the clouds to welcome the royal couple on their return to the
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PATEL SAVED

SABBATICAL NO-CONFIDENCE FAILS TO GAIN SUPPORT BUT ALMOST 40% WANT HIM OUT.
Elections and Rules Committee member, Ed Nisbet put forward a failed proposal to this week’s Union Council to no confidence the elected Campaigns and Involvement Sabbatical Officer, Dee Patel. If passed, this would have had serious repercussions, resulting in Patel losing his full-time, paid
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CONFIDENTIAL DETAILS RELEASED IN ERROR

Leicester University students’ personal details were sensationally emailed to thousands of students following a serious mistake made by a Union staff member. 3,396 individual students’ details were contained in the database collected from NUS Extra card details. The database contained personal details such as email address, name, mobile number and date of birth.
Only students on
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OBAMA ELECTED 44TH PRESIDENT OF UNITED STATES

Barack Obama has become the new president of the USA. ‘Change has come to America,’ he declared before tens of thousands of people gathered in Chicago’s Grant Park on the night of his historic election win.
Obama, 47, and his vice-presidential running mate, Joe Biden, won in an electoral college landslide, seizing the swing states of
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