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Bus disaster kills boy

An eleven-year-old girl saw her thirteen-year-old brother killed on Monday, when their school bus collided with a tractor. Tomas Ryan-Vig from Bicester, ten miles...

OUSU marked with initiative failure

The University has advised students not to waste their money on an Oxford University Student Union (OUSU) initiative encouraging students to apply to see...

RC church to be dominated by gays

Priestly celibacy in the Roman Catholic Church has broken down and may have to be abandoned, an Oxford monk, and former Master General of...

Number of offers to state school students falls

The number of state school pupils who received an offer from Oxford University fell this year despite an increase in the number of applications....

University refutes racism accusations

Government minister, David Lammy has accused Oxford of prejudice against black applicants, a claim rejected by the University. In The Guardian newspaper, Lammy accused...

Howard’s radical son takes orders

The son of Conservative Party leader Michael Howard is training to become an Anglican priest, six years after he was accused of “spiritual nazism” in Cherwell.Howard,...

Court “underestimated” student’s life

The mother of Edmund Sutton, an Oxford student killed in a car crash last year, has expressed her anger and grief after the Cambridge...

Oxford students UK’s least mothered

Mothers all over the country are going online to keep their children well-fed at university. Oxford students, however, seem more capable of buying their...