University Freshers took to Birmingham’s Broad Street for two packed nightclub events on Sunday night.

The students enjoyed warm weather as temperatures hovered around 18 degrees.

Events at nightclubs PRYZM and Rosies were held despite the period of National Mourning over the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

Most freshers don’t start their official Freshers Week until Monday 19th, the day of the Queen’s funeral, but many have started a week early with both first year and returning students hitting the clubs.

The revellers were seen walking with their arms around each other, one woman was held up with her feet in the air as she clung onto 2 lads whilst smiling.

A man embraced a woman in khaki combats as he checked his phone.

Two ladies navigated a spilt tray of chips as they walked along the infamous strip.

A woman was helped to her feet by her friend after she lay on the floor to take a picture.

More than 40 universities have signed up to an anti-spiking campaign ahead of the new academic year.

Life Stuff’s #endspiking initiative, timed to launch ahead of freshers’ week events, will see the institutions offer single-use drink testing kits and point students to online awareness information and resources.

Alcohol Education Trust (AET), the youth charity managing Life Stuff, was moved to act on drink spiking and spiking by injection following the results of an SOS-UK/NUS survey on the issue.

Of the 14% of students who believed they’d been given drugs through their drinks without their knowledge, 70% hadn’t reported it.

With an increasing number of students asking what they should do, AET worked with a group of them to create the new anti-spiking campaign.