Peter Fitzsimons, Author at Cherwell

Mehdi’s kebab van loses its licence

Kebab van closed after numerous complaints and repeated failure to meet the council's standards of health and safety

Griffin protest outside Oxford Union

Protesters assemble against the absent Nick Griffin outside the Oxford Union, after the BNP chairman's threat to attend Thursday's gay parenting debate.The Union retracted its invitation to Griffin earlier this week

Union denies OCA meetings

Oxford Union refuses to renew ‘Port and Policy’ agreement with Oxford Conservative Association

Oxford extends support to all UK students

Oxford University is to extend its UK financial support package to Scottish and Northern Irish undergraduate students, with a potential Â£7,470 of bursaries and fee waivers on offer per year.

Worcester’s ‘Zoom!’ takes tortoise race first place

Despite wet conditions, Corpus Christi's tortoise fair took place last Sunday, raising over Â£1000 for charity

Back to the Drawing Board

Cherwell checks out Pembroke's 'Before I Die' wall, the story behind it, and the dreams written on it

Oriel hit swan in Summer VIIIs

Oriel's headship crew hit swan while racing, swan is later hospitalised and its wing has to be amputated

JCR Presidents run for cancer

11 JCR Presidents go on fun run in University Parks organised by St Anne's JCR President

Brasenose to name bust as monarch

Brasenose JCR proposed a motion which will see the President subservient to the bust of former student and JCR President Paul Gladwell

Worcester ‘lads’ on library tour

A group of forty students at Worcester are taking part in a tour around Oxford in personalised tour t-shirts as they revise for finals exams

Bionic eye created

Researchers at Oxford have helped to implant the first electronic retina into blind patients in the UK

Student signs six-figure book deal

Samantha Shannon-Jones, a second-year student at St Anne's, has signed a three-book deal with Bloomsbury for her series of urban fantasy novels.

Charity tax plans cause anger in Oxford

Vice-Chancellor Andrew Hamilton writes letter to George Osborne expressing concern over proposed reforms to the taxation of charitable donations, which could cost Oxford millions

‘Viking’ skeletons found in St John’s

Research carried out on bones found in St John's has revealed that they may belong to tenth-century Viking raiders

‘The Pink City’: Ten generations of Jaipur gems

Lessons From A Taiwanese Coaster

The last tutorial: Let the nostalgia – and the...

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Peter Fitzsimons