Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Cherwell

Bouncer fights dismissal

The Oxford Union is set to face an electoral tribunal after sacked bouncer Imran Abrahams vowed to fight the allegations that led to his...

No traffic charge

The Oxford City Council has ruled out a London-style congestion charge to ease the city’s grid-locked streets. Despite initially considering the scheme following the...

Worst shopping

Oxford is one of the worst places to shop in the UK, a new survey says, and is unlikely to improve. The survey of...

OUP is top

Oxford University Press (OUP) is Britain’s top publisher according to an annual league published in the trade magazine ‘The Bookseller.’ A spokesperson from the...

Squarking with Delight

It’s probably a safe bet that most British readers won’t have encountered contemporary Native Americans in their leisure literature. With the recent publication of...

Shock and Whore

The problem with extreme sex is that I’m not entirely convinced such a thing exists. If anything, it conjures ludicrous images of overweight women...

Postgrad Marks

Oxford postgraduates will soon find themselves scouted by exam boards to mark A-level and GCSE scripts matter of months after sitting their own finals,...

Virgin Auction

A Chilean student is auctioning off her virginity to pay for her last two years on a Modern Languages course. The 21-year old, who...

Exam Labour

Antonella Magnani, 28, recently sat her final law exam while in labour in a hospital delivery room, after college authorities concluded that giving birth...

Town Spies

Angry York residents are lying in wait every night for unsuspecting student revellers, after the University’s Vice-Chancellor has offered a reward for information relating...

Another Late Night

CLUBBING TWISTED NUCLEUZ TOUR THE ZODIAC SUNDAY 25TH MAY Ed real, Ryan H and James lawson feature in a bank holiday break-beat hot-house tin-trance...

Home News

St. John’s undergraduates passed a JCR motion last Sunday to buy a bulldozer. Impending debate with the SCR over rents and charges prompted the...

Duck Tales

Despite threats made via e-mail Cherwell to stop slanderous allegations against them, ducks continue to make prominent news. Those the LMH quad wandered across...

Three Goats Heads

The Three Goat’s Heads is the kind of pub that you only get in city centres. First impressions are that it is a joyless,...

Food

I’m in Oxford’s stuffiest taxi shouting apologies into my mobile. The driver is plodding along smoking interminable cigarillos, insisting on the windows being up,...

Keith Thomson’s Week

Back from the USA May 6th. The swifts have made their annual return to the Museum tower; exactly on schedule. But safety regulations now...

John Evelyn

It came as some surprise to Evelyn to learn this week that a stalwart of good manners and solid behaviour, Union Treasurer Huw ‘Hugsy’...

Fit Sportswoman of the Week

Regent’s Park Finalist Helen is training hard for Varsity Athletics on 17 May. She runs the 100m and 200m, and ran the 100m sprint...

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