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Girl survives 20 ft glass drop

Clubbing students watched in shock as a tourist plummeted two storeys through a glass roof outside the Bridge nightclub on Monday night. The young...

Short, sharp shock

Rowena Mason meets up with Clare Short before her Union address to discuss her views on Tony’s war Clare Short has always been audaciously...

ticker.ticker.ticker.ticker.

Cherwell brings you headlines from the past week… George Bush has refused to criticise Israel’s air strike on Syria in response to a...

Party political punch-ups

Both Tony Blair and IDS have battled cynical media coverage of the party conferences this week, struggling to retain focus on policy in the...

Shambolic Finals

French finalists were dealt yet another blow last Thursday when the Chairman of Examiners and the Proctors issued a letter stating that the listening...

Colleges Deny "Rent Conspiracy"

A number of JCR Presidents believe that an inter-collegiate conspiracy is to blame for soaring student accommodation costs across Oxford University. Suspicions were raised after...