Good evening. Welcome to bbc news. The government has defended its decision to allow hundreds of thousands of students in england to return to university for the new term, despite several outbreaks of coronavirus on campuses. Thousands of students have had to be confined to their rooms, but the culture secretary, oliver dowden, says its important their studies arent sacrificed because of the virus. But a member of the governments advisory body modelling the spread of the pandemic, says the consequences of allowing students back have been entirely predictable. Dan johnson reports now, from manchester. For the student in need, theres one Emergency Service that always delivers. Parents have stepped in when supermarket slots ran out. Its just really rough at the moment, and were really disheartened by the whole entire situation. These first year Nursing Student say theyre already rationing food. People wanted to drop out, were not getting the right uni experience. And were not talking abou