, , , , & The year’s floodgates opened on a torrent of water-based stories when the University was with a £600,000 bill for an unbuilt swimming pool and hopes for the boatie pre-season were washed away by during Storm Henk. It remains unclear why an abundance of water posed a problem for the rowers, who famously travel in boats. Adverse weather conditions plagued students abroad, too, with Varsity skiers in the Alps after a “crush” to board coaches.

While students contended with feet of snow, University leadership found itself on thin ice with regards to its , as academics frosty words over Cambridge’s green policies. As Lent began, revealed that Trinity in prizes and grants to students from elite schools, while the University was of “actively discouraging” victims of sexual assault from going to the police. Former home secretary Suella Braverman made the news for the first – and far from last – time when she the Union’s list of upcoming speakers, although the event never came to be.

Alumnus David Mitchell to film detective series which, can reveal, very good. In the month that Cambridge’s chancellor his intention to resign, St John’s College was caught crying over spilt lager as it community service to students involved in a beer and urine-spilling frenzy at a sports day in Oxford. Corpus’s Oxbridge sports day was after last year’s mayhem, when prized possessions – including a teddy bear and a photo of Boris Johnson’s son – were stolen from t.