At the University of Lincoln, this week is Healthy Campus week. Set up by the university’s Students Union, the week proposes to immerse students in healthy living, from free sports events at the on-site leisure centre to stress relieving sessions.

Tagged as a time to ‘energise, enrich and enlighten’, the week aims to teach students how to improve their lifestyles and keep active. There will be various different sessions held throughout the week, at both the Brayford and Riseholm campuses, to reach out to all students.

Activities include well known sports such as mini football tournaments, squash, badminton, basketball and kick boxing, but will give students the chance to try something a bit different with futsal and body zorbing.

Body zorbing entails being harnessed into an inflatable ball, and participants can run, collide and roll around without injury. Jonathan Holmes, a second year Journalism student tasted the activity, saying “it’s very good fun, but also very tiring! It was hilarious to run around, bumping into people and not to hurt yourself.”

Healthy Campus week will be running until 4 March.

Described as the “perfect aid for every penitent” an application has been developed to encourage Catholics to admit their wrongdoings.
Developed by Little iApps, Confession has gone on sale this week. It follows Pope Benedict XVI urging Christians to embrace digital communication. In his World Communications address earlier this year, he said, “I invite people to make good use of their presence in the digital world.”
The app offers users tips and guidelines, but is not intended to replace traditional confession completely. It is intended to allow users to examine their conscience based on their personal information, which is stored in the application and password protected.
Users are taken through the sacrament, and the app allows them to keep a track of their sins. However it is to be used as a prompt to visit a priest for absolution following its use.
The developers of the application said that it was made with the assistance of several priests, and given the Church’s blessing by Bishop Kevin Rhoades of Indiana.
Senior Church officials in both the UK and US have announced their approval of the application for iPhones and iPads, and it is thought to be the first time that they have agreed with a mobile app.