NEWSPAPERS featuring naked and semi-naked women will now be sold at Aberystwyth University Students’ Union shop after students voted overwhelmingly to revoke a blanket ban.

The result comes despite complaints from campaigners aiming to repeal the ‘Boobs are not News’ ban on the Daily Star and Sun newspapers at the union that students only got 11 days’ notice of the poll.

In the vote, in which students were asked “should the Students’ Union Shop sell all newspapers, Yes/No?”, the ‘Yes’ campaign received 556 votes, while the ‘No’ campaign received 192 votes.

A spokesperson for the students’ union said that the result “means that the current ‘Boobs are not news’ policy will be revoked”.

“More information will be released shortly on what’s going to happen next,” the union added.

Aberystwyth had joined a clutch of university students’ unions to ban Page 3 newspapers - but Aberystwyth is believed to be the first to revoke the ban through a student vote.

Ieuan Joy, who kickstarted the campaign to have the policy revoked, said: "Even though I do not read these papers or believe in their views, banning newspapers from the students’ union is in effect censorship.

“Protest is the way forward not censorship.

“The policy also gives very bad publicity to the students’ union as a whole.”

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