Europe’s oldest student newspaper saved from closure

The Student launched an initial fundraising appeal for £1,000. By Wednesday morning, it had raised more than £3,300. Photograph: gofundme

The oldest student newspaper in Europe has been saved from closure after its volunteer staff raised more than £3,000 in emergency crowdfunding.

A free newspaper, the Student was founded at the University of Edinburgh in 1887 by the novelist Robert Louis Stevenson, the author of Treasure Island and Kidnapped, who served as its first arts editor.