Freshers flocked to city centres on mass this week ahead of a curfew on pubs. New university students glammed up in Nottingham and Birmingham for a night on the tiles despite restrictions on social gatherings.
Having spent months away from their schoolmates after classrooms shut at the height of the pandemic, the latest recruits wasted no time getting boozed up with their new higher-education pals.
In Nottingham freshers donned animal outfits for a fancy dress party held in a bierkeller. Council workers in high-viz jackets attempted to manage the throng that built up outside the ticketed event.
In Birmingham - which was recently forced into a local lockdown after coronavirus cases surged - most students kept in bubbles of six while