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I’m not in favour of the freedom to drive cars into skipping schoolkids.

The power of 10: Liveblogging Pennsylvania

Liveblogging as the Pa. returns come in

Neighbourhood Watch: DFO

"We were probably Oxford’s only undercover funk band."

Stock up on Wadstock

Sean Lennon and Daniel Rolle look forward to Wadham's annual music festival, which takes place on Saturday.

PCSOs on the beat

Despite being dubbed the 'quad squad', they can only enter colleges if invited. 

And they’re off…

It's that time of year again: the annual scramble to see who Rupert and his cronies will pick to be one of the chosen Murdoch scholars (PDF). The scheme has an illustrious set of alumni. Well, not really, but a few of the recent scholars are in pretty decent meedjya jobs these days. Last year saw four Cherwellites, two OxStuds, one from someting called Oxide (?) and some randomer that no one knew head off to Wapping, but in previous years it's been weighted in the OxStu's favour. They tend to only pick newsy types, and those with lashings of work experience, but anyone with a hanful of decent news cuts is in with a good chance. Maybe the wide-eyed young hopefuls would like to send Saint Aldate their CVs so we can sort out some odds: [email protected] So the question is, who's going for it this year? All the current editors (Kenber, Cox Jensen and Kuchler) are having a go. So's Lolhouse, who spends so much time on the OxStu front page that he's applied for citizenship. Maybe

Colleges hit out at council

All Souls and University Colleges, and Steve Howell, Head of Transport for Oxfordshire County Council, have publicly taken swipes at each other over the issue of signage and buses on Oxford's High Street. News that the Council wished to site more bus stops on the High Street, including one possibly in front of All Souls main gateway, has prompted a scathing attack on the Council's "vandalism" of the street, with All Souls bursar Thomas Seaman deriding the Council as being more concerned with bus passengers than they are with the environment or those organisations situated on the High Street. The Warden of All Souls, Dr. John Davis also expressed concern over the pollution control monitor at the front of the college, that he says the Council said was only temporary. Howell's reply cites the improvement in paving and road surfaces, and a claimed de-cluttering of signage as evidence of the Council's commitment to the welfare of the High Street, and cit

Union may cancel Langham talk

Tansey considering calling off event in light of Kidscape's comments.   UPDATE: Talk cancelled

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