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Hot student lovin' on the web

Chris Kelly talks to Alex Neill about his uni dating site
Alex Neill THIS STORY LAST UPDATED:
21 March 2003 1604 GMT


If you are a fresher at Bristol University, you have probably been in the city about six months now.
Alex Neill's Bristol Romance site has almost 400 members already.
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In that time, by my reckoning, you should have quite a few notches on your bedpost, so to speak.

If the answer is yes, then you should stop reading now.

If the answer is no, and your bedpost is smoother than the pint I had last night, then I have the answer.

Alex Neill has set up a new website specifically for love-lorn students at the uni.

Bristol Romance is a free site, based on successful sister sites in Cambridge and Oxford, set up by Alex's brother, Richard.

"The ratio of men to women at Cambridge is something like 5:1," Alex told me.

"I think he might have been looking for a girlfriend, but this is all good IT experience too.

"He's very set about not ripping students off, so the site is free to use, and doesn't have adverts."

Good on Richard for helping them all out, I say!

"At the moment we have around 200 people on the Bristol site.

Flowers for the ladies

"We were outside the Wills Memorial Building handing out flowers dressed in DJs to promote the website.

"About 150 more people signed up in the past few days after that!"

That's not bad going, since the website has only been up-and-running about eight weeks.

Lots of potential dates at the end of an internet connection ...

In fact, the original sites in Oxford and Cambridge have seen two engagements and a marriage.

Surely that puts even Cilla Black to shame!

It is easy to sign up to the site, with only a few basic pieces of information required.

Filling in your profile

"If you go to the website, you can sign by giving your email address, and choosing a nickname.

"There's already a few joke ones going around.

"After that all you need to do is fill in some basic profile information out yourself, and what you're looking for."

So, no excuses now.

If you are a slow starter on the bed notch front, here's your saviour!

Good luck.

















"[My brother is] very set about not ripping students off, so the site is free to use, and doesn't have adverts."
Alex Neill
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