If you're in the South West then Cardiff is probably north of you. Lively city, good uni, touch of foreign culture and they've just built a MASSIVE student accomodation block in Adam Street. Vast majority of people English speaking. Not nearly as hardline Welsh as Aberystwyth can be.

If you must go "oop nawth", as I believe they say it, my ex-student colleagues have a lot of good things to say about Leeds e.g. one of the longest student union bars anywhere and a wide choice of venues for going out.

If you went to Keele - near Stoke on Trent - you might meet one of my daughters who should be a first-year there in October . . . A-levels permitting.

Wherever you end up, have fun.

Gray D