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Science Park Gets Go Ahead Bangor University Students’ Union October 2013 English Language Issue No. 235 Newspaper FREE @SerenBangor Seren.Bangor.ac.uk - SOCIETY OF THE YEAR 2013 - TREAT YOURSELF INTERVIEW: TRANSPORT POLICE HAIM: DAYS ARE GONE Science Park gets go ahead New project hopes to keep graduates in North Wales by BECKI WATSON Jones is hopeful that the Park will be scienti c industries, as well encourag- up and running by 2016. ing researchers to relocate to Bangor, ecent plans for a new science Leaders of the project have picked creating more job opportunities for park project in Anglesey are set out their preferred site out of three graduates. Furthermore, the presence to increase graduate opportu- possible locations. It is a 50 acre site, of leading researchers in this project Rnities in North Wales. located at Gaerwen, Anglesey, and is will raise the reputation of the univer- e Menai Science Park was given currently owned by Anglesey County sity as a whole, bene tting everyone the go ahead by the Welsh Govern- Council. is means that the project who studies here. ment a er last year’s budget negotia- would be able to take advantage of the Local residents in Bangor and An- tions secured the future funding of Enterprise Zone currently established glesey are also supportive of the plan, the park, with the pledge of £10m on Anglesey, which would also attract as the funding going into the site capital to be raised over the next corporations to the area. e site is will create jobs within the area and two years. e future of the project ten miles away from the main univer- boost the economy. Vice Chancellor has also been assured further by the sity building which may be problem- of Bangor University John G. Hughes appointment of Ieuan Wyn Jones as atic for students wishing to visit the commented that the Menai Science project director, who will step down park who don’t have easy access to Park was an ‘exciting initiative which from his role in the Welsh Assembly transport. has tremendous potential,’ as well as in order to take on the job. While the development of this site stating that he was ‘grateful to the e aim of a science park is to create will be an enormous bene t to the Welsh Government for the support a dedicated site that links current sciences at Bangor, as Wyn Jones they’ve given to make this happen.’ academic research to commercial and stated that the site will ‘o er oppor- e Vice Chancellor’s previous corporate development, leading to tunities for post graduate students to experience with this kind of project the overall economic improvement of work on industry facing research pro- includes the inception of a Science the local area through the creation of jects with a sound science base,’ will Park in the Republic of Ireland at the high value jobs in the scienti c eld. attract new researchers, it is believed University of Maynooth, were he was Science Park Director Ieuan Wyn it will also bene t the university at president for six years. e success Jones has stated his hope that the park large. of the project created strong links will ‘play host to industry facing and Due to the relatively small size of within the intel industry and tripled science based research projects, either the city, Bangor does not have a wide the research income from €10 million Wales U21’s celebrate against located currently within Bangor range of employment opportunities in 2004 to €34 million in 2009 and Lithuania at Bangor City’s Nantporth University, within the SME commu- for graduates. However, this project an increase in postgraduate student Photo by: LJ Taylor nity and within large corporates.’ Wyn would actively promote the growth of numbers of more than 50%, to 1,800. Bangor City FC putting North Wales on the map by LJ TAYLOR internationally as a host team” said “We had hosted a few U16 games, and the club, to people from other up the teams in the Management Cen- Gwynfor Jones, Bangor City’s Club friendlies, women’s and even disabili- countries who may never have heard t r e”. angor City this month played Secretary, on the great opportunity. ties matches last year and so we basi- of it before. Bangor City will host Wales’ Victory host to Wales’ U21 national e competitive international cally said look, we’ve proved we can “A lot of hard work and dedica- Shield game against N. Ireland next team in their UEFA Champi- matches, along with the match against host and we want to do it again” said tion was involved but it has been well month, which will be broadcast live Bonship matches against Lithuania and Finland in August, were awarded to Mr Jones. worth it” he said. on Sky Sports. San Marino. the local club a er the club’s manage- Bangor City have received a lot of “And the university should be proud “It has put Bangor City on the map but ment expressed their interest to UEFA positive response and are proud of of the part they played; hosting train- also Bangor as a city. We are now known and F.A Wales. how they were able to show Bangor, ing sessions on Treborth and putting October Issue 2013 | Seren 3 CONTENTS BECKI WATSON EDITOR [email protected] Hello and welcome to our second issue of this year’s Seren! We hope that you’re all settling back into university life and that you’ve sur- vived the chaos of Freshers’ Week relatively intact. This was our rst issue with all 40 of our newly elected sub-eds, and it’s always a bit nerve wracking to introduce so many new people to the group when you don’t know 10 how everyone will get along. Howev- er, I had absolutely nothing to worry about, as the whole team bonded while plotting to scare me witless by hiding themselves throughout the union (a plan that epically failed when 12 Sinnead missed her cue, but Wyatt hiding under my desk did cause me to shriek so loud everyone in the building could hear). But despite their nefarious scheme 24 to terrify me, I’m extremely proud News 4-7 of the issue that my team have put together, especially when so many of Comment 8-9 them are new to Seren. Hopefully it Politics 10-11 can only get better and better from now on! Environment 12-13 As you can probably tell from our Science 14-15 shameless pumpkin carving on the front page, this issue features a lot Interview 16-17 of Halloween themed articles. Check Halloween 18-19 out our Halloween feature showing you how to do Halloween on a budg- Union 20 et, as well as an amazing recipe for Pumpkin Bread on our Food page. Societies 21 Aside from all that spooky stu , Haven Interview 22 we’ve got an exclusive interview with Haven’s Kate Kelton, as well as TV 24-25 a chance to win a set of Haven DVDs. Film 26-27 If you nish this edition of Seren and like what you see, it’s not too Music 28-29 9 late to get involved! We’re always on Books 30-31 the lookout for more contributors, be it writers, proofreaders, photogra- Arts & Culture 32-33 phers or designers. If broadcast jour- Fashion 34-35 nalism is more your thing, we have a new and exciting opportunity in Health & Beauty 36-37 39 Seren TV! To nd out more, email us Creative 38-39 at [email protected]. We hope you enjoy the issue! Food & Drink 40-41 The views presented hereinafter Breaktime 43 do not represent the views of Seren Bangor, Bangor Students’ Union or Travel 44-45 Bangor University. Sport 46-48 Seren is printed by NWN Media. 31 THE TEAM Matthew Ridgway Luke Barrett Lauren Highton Editor Becki Watson Food Harriet Weller LJ Taylor Rachel Gill Ana Victoria-Dan Deputy: Content Nicola Hoban TV Ida Vaisanen Emily Houlston-Jones Zakee Pandor Ash Povall Deputy: Design Becci Jameson Film Jack Nicol Wyatt Warner Sarah Jones Eleanor Hirst Secretary Ali Keshtmand Music Tom Bickerdike Gemma Simmons Heather Boyles Kyoungmi, Kim News Charlotte Parker Books Amy Blackwell Megan Adamson Miles Hardman Kayleigh Reid Environment Will Johnson Fashion James Holman Richard Dallison Callum Lewis Joe Keep Science Edwin Pynegar Creative Laura Pozzi Al Hulley Curt Mcardle George Player Comment Sinnead Towey Travel Steph Yeabsley Laura Doody Portia Dodds Ryan Jaques Arts and Culture Megan Townsend Sport Kevin Gri n Chris Glass Ailish Bumpus Health & Beauty Sara Williams Design LJ Taylor CONTRIBUTORS 4 Seren | October Issue 2013 NEWS Challenge accepted In Brief Concert for Cerys BANGOR gets ready to welcome and old face for a one o concert. Cerys Matthews will be visiting Prichard-Jones Hall as part of her Hook, Line and Carol singing tour on December 8th. Before moving to Catatonia, Cerys was a local around Bangor and very much enjoys returning home. Having just released her new album, Matthews is having a remarkable year in her career. She won gold at the Sony Radio Academy Awards for her Sunday morning show on BBC 6 Mu- sic. Matthews has also written and re- leased her own sing-a-long book that became a bestseller. Bangor dominate in Welsh Universities Derby match Fabulous four blast through to next round Missing old time favourite, Rhodri the dragon, hilarating and terrifying. I was ne White, 21, is studying a Masters Re- the lucky mascot brought by last year’s until we got into the studio and then I search degree in Ecology.
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