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University For Creative Arts Students Rush In To Get Their COVID Tests In Time For Christmas

As the festive holiday approaches, University students across the country urgently get their COVID 19 test as they wait for their results, hoping it's negative, to get back home to their families for Christmas.

UCA, a university located in Farnham, have been on the ball when trying to test everyone on time. The man in charge of this is Tim Savage, the head of academic planning, who said he had "a duty of care to protect these people."

"The last week has been an incredibly challenging week." While "frantically unboxing" all of the supplies they needed, the staff had to build a test centre on all four UCA sites and recruit "about sixty staff" last minute in order to do the testing. Tim had to also teach the staff how to do a swab test on people and how to properly wear PPE

The students trust the test and trace system at UCA. With one saying the testers "know more than me so I trust them" and another one mentioning the fact that they "have to take it twice" shows how much precautions they are taking to make these tests successful.

It's a complicated and confusing time for the university. Something UCA has never done before. But it is something they believe has to be done in order to allow students to visit their families with the confidence of not passing the virus onto anyone outside the campus over the Christmas break

Famous London Rappers Fight On Economy Class Plane

Famous London rappers, Headie One and Tion Wayne, have been seen getting into a heated confrontation on an economy class plane to Dubai, which was captured on video by one of the passengers. In the video, Tion allegedly punches Headie in the face while both being held back by friends and other famous rappers like Morrison, to try and stop the fight.

Video contains strong laguage

The two rappers could now face charges for fighting on a plane and could even be banned from Dubai.

Headie One's rap group, OFB, have taken to social media to comment their views on the situation. With another rapper, Bandokay, who's also in Headie One's rap group, posting a message on snapchat saying people are "too quick to make lies" and also mentioning "no one got banged."

Morrison, seen as the peacemaker in this situation, also posted an Instagram story saying "Just keep in mind there's always a lot more things than what meets the eye."

Headie One and his rap group have been known to hate Tion Wayne for years as they drop messages in their songs specifically aimed at him. One song called "Ambush," released in May 2019, had the lyric "Tion Wayne is a... joker."

For now it's too early to say. Will Headie One and Tion Wayne get arrested and prosecuted? Will the fighting escalate and carry on in Dubai or back in London? Will the rap group, OFB, get involved? Only time will tell

Millions Mourne the Death Of Diego Maradona

Known to be one of the greatest footballers in football, Diego Maradona, died on the 25th November. Millions of people around the world mourned his death to pay their respects. Our reporter, Alexander Ioannou, reports:

COVID Shielders- How Are They Coping?

Over two million people were asked to shield during the first lockdown with the concern of how fatal coronavirus could affect them. And with Christmas coming up, most shielders feel they shouldn't meet their families over the festive break. Others say, however, they haven't seem their families since March and this is a day they finally get to spend time with them. Our reporter, Alexander Ioannou, spoke to a shielder to ask how he's been coping with it:

University "not worth it" With New Lockdown Measures

Lockdown again. The roads are empty, businesses are shut and everyone is stuck at home. As confused as everyone is right now, one of the people that feel they have been left out and treated unfairly by the government, are university students. Our reporter, Alexander Ioannou, has the latest: