Shabby student shacks

sTUDEnTs might want a cushy lifestyle (Femail), but if the writer wants her son to experience squalor, I can recommend a large student house in newcastle where one of my twin daughters lived last year.

Despite the mould, slugs, blocked loos, inadequate showers and lack of curtains in her cupboard- sized bedroom, she managed to graduate with a 2:1. sAlly hAyEs, Great Bookham, surrey.