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Disclaimer “Swen: The Backward News” is a satirical news column. Any articles associated with Swen are of fiction and constitute as fake news. Any resemblance to the truth or actual facts or to reality is purely coincidental. Shuttle Bus | Tom Boon Robert Wheatley | Lifestyle Editor The horrendous squeaking sound of one of UH’s Shuttle buses has been revealed to be the bus actually asking to be put to death. The bus’s calls for help were heard via a receipt which was printed

Image: Pixabay [Hannah Wileman | Contributing Writer] Starting university can be a nerve-wracking and scary time; you don’t need the added pressure of worrying about how to get from A to B; whether on foot, in a taxi, bus Caption: Pixabay , bike, or train, we’ve got it covered!  So you can just get down to making new friends, having fun and enjoying Freshers’ Week, (as well as starting your course!) Taxi: Got a lot of stuff to carry into campus or have one too many shopping b

[Oliver Price | Contributing Writer] Uno, the Bus Service wholly owned by the University of Hertfordshire, have started an investment to improve benefits to staff and students. These have been introduced in response to customer feedback. On the 12th January 2015 Uno introduced the 695 bus service, a weekday shuttle between Hatfield Station and the Forum Hertfordshire that runs at peak hours during University time. It combines with the 653, 602, and 341/641 to provide eight bu

[Brad Johnson | Deputy Editor] An incident occurred on the A1081 at around 08:25am on the 20th October 2014, between South Mimms and Barnet. Forty five people including some students of the University of Hertfordshire were injured. In a StudyNet post, Lorna Evans stated “We know that a number of our students were on board the bus and that some have been taken to local hospitals.” The East of England Ambulance Service announced that no-one is thought to be critically injured h