UCLAN Newspaper

Pluto is a student newspaper at the University of Central Lancashire's Students' Union

It is usually published every fortnight through the academic year, and began life in 1985 as the Ribble Echo. The name originally stood for Preston Libertarian Undergraduate Tabloid Offering. In recent years its format has varied from a newspaper to a glossy magazine. It is now printed in tabloid newspaper format with colour photography.

In the 2005/6 academic year, Communications Officer Mark Hudson (now with The Sun newspaper) relaunched the organ as a fortnightly tabloid newspaper with a more upmarket pull-out supplement modelled extensively on that of The Guardian ' s G2. Despite mostly new staff, the format was maintained under the then Communications Officer, Nicholas Graham "The Hodd" Hodder. Pluto sometimes uses the tagline "Furthest From The Sun?", in reference to the British national tabloid format "red top" newspaper. This was ostensibly due to The Sun being previously banned from being sold in the Union Shop (now the expanded "Essentials" mini-mart type general store), due to the apparent sexism of topless photography of "page 3 girls". In 1998, Pluto was named as Guardian Student Newspaper of the Year.

Nick Hodder the Communications Officer for 2006/7 is now a writer for PC Utilities magazine.