Palatinate
Named after the colours awarded for sport at Durham, the newspaper comes out fortnightly. It has a rolling editorship but maintains a good standard all the time and contains news, ents details, scoops and scandals. It was recently judged best Varsity newspaper in the Guardian media awards. Beware though, there is quite a close community at Durham so the stories are likely to concern people you know or you!
There is also two sites worth ckecking out- one called Durham21 and the other called the Durham Shallot. Durham 21 is a very useful resource for freshers. The information is clear and well presented and there's plenty there to assuage fears before arriving. The union also claims that the website is used by students all year round for finding out what's going on at the uni and in Durham and Newcastle. Defintely worth the time.
