Thursday, January 30, 2025

Trudy Ross

Oxford Women’s Festival to celebrate achievement and solidarity

The 2020 Oxford International Women’s Festival is set to take place from Saturday 29th of February until Sunday 14th of March, 50 years after the inaugural Women’s Liberation Conference...

Sainsbury’s ‘IT’ display causes controversy

‘Incredibly distasteful’ kidnapped child dummies, on display for sales of DVDs for the film ‘IT: Chapter Two’ have been seen in Oxfordshire stores. A mum, who prefers to...

Monty Python star and Oxford alumnus Terry Jones dies

Terry Jones, the beloved Monty Python star, died on Tuesday evening, four years after being diagnosed with dementia. Jones was a valued student of Oxford University during the...

New Oxford study identifies main suicide risk factors

Last week, researchers from the University of Oxford and the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, published a new study on lifetime suicide risk factors in the...

Homeless community speaks out against ‘spiteful’ armrests on benches

This weekend two extra armrests were drilled onto an Oxford bench on Woodstock road to stop people from lying down.  A photo of the bench,...

Social club to be replaced by affordable housing

Oxford City Council’s team decided the fate of Barton Royal British Legion Club on the 15th of January. The club on Edgecombe Road is...

Sir Ernest Ryder elected master of Pembroke College

Pembroke has announced that the Rt Hon Sir Ernest Ryder will be the next Master of the college, taking over from Dame Lynne Brindley...

Layla Moran voted down in fight to protect Erasmus Programme

Oxford West and Abingdon MP Layla Moran pushed two amendments to the Withdrawal Agreement Bill to keep UK in Erasmus+ programme and to protect...

Petition launched to protect UK’s role in Erasmus

A petition to put pressure on the government to protect the UK’s role in the EU’s Erasmus scheme has received over 26,000 signatures.  MPs voted...

Oxford University receives €56 million grant

Oxford University has been awarded a grant of €56 million by the European Research Council (ERC).  The winners of the ERC’s latest Consolidator Grants Competition...

Santa Claus pays special visit to Oxford Children’s Hospital

Patients at Oxford Children’s Hospital received a very special visit from Father Christmas today. Arriving in a Puma HC2 helicopter rather than his usual...

Oxford Homeless Project celebrates four years

The Oxford Homeless Project celebrated its fourth anniversary on Monday (November 11) at the Asian Cultural Centre in Cowley. The Muslim community project, led by Shabnam Sabir and...

Historians express concern at St Peter’s Project

In September of this year, St Peter’s College applied for planning permission to build student accommodation next to their main site. This would allow the...

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