The inside story of how students took on the University of Manchester - and won
'I didn’t feel like I wanted to be paying for a room I didn’t want to be in'
Mollie Simpson
Mollie is an investigative reporter. In 2025, she won the local journalism prize at the British Journalism Awards for her reporting on the University of Greater Manchester.
'They were out pulling, dancing and flirting, bringing people into the flat, going to parties'
We spoke to four students inside MMU's controversial lockdown
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We sent a reporter to hang out with some first-year students