Sunday 10th May 2026

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Students encounter issues with voting registration during local elections

Multiple students across Oxford have reported being turned away from polling stations during Thursday’s local elections.

Access to Canvas temporarily suspended by University following cyberattack

Access to Canva has been temporarily suspended by the University today as a precautionary measure following an external breach of Instructure, the third-party supplier of Canvas.

Oxford Union town hall HT26 re-run: Meet the candidates

A re-poll for the Oxford Union Presidency for Michaelmas 2026 is set to take place on Monday. Cherwell spoke to the candidates running about the state of the Union and their vision for the society.

Oxford Labour defies national trends at city council elections

The Labour Party defied national trends in the Oxford local elections yesterday, with their seat count in the City Council dropping slightly from 21 to 20, against a national backdrop of major losses for the party.

Port Meadow criticism spreads

Campaign to Protect Rural England backs protest against Port Meadow development

Osborne visits Magdalen

Chancellor returns to his old college to give a talk to Politics students

Oxford students second most satisfied

Times survey shows significant satisfaction among Oxford students, though not so much with their student union

Blavatnik bothered by local campaign

Opposition to University building planned next to Freud on Walton Street

Fundraising electrifies

£420,000 raised by community hydroelectricity project after just ten days

Pembroke JCR debates morning after pill

Pembroke JCR debates stopping refunds for morning-after pill

Assassination fever grips Pembroke

The university’s largest game of Assassins is to run throughout Trinity term at Pembroke

Keble trials anonymous voting

Donations fund provokes new voting system

Coup stag-ed against Hertford motion

Motion to have JCR President get stag tatoo fails on welfare grounds

Mr Nice comes to Balliol

Former drug dealer gives 'Legalise It' lecture

Lincoln bar to close on Saturdays

'Deep Hall' to shut weekly to limit the bar managers' workload

Oxford student in noodle internet sensation

Barney Parker at Corpus Christi has achieved internet fame in Korea after a friend photographed him eating spicy noodles

Union hosts hustings for County Council elections

Alexander Woolley reports from the Goodman library

Balliol JCR confesses "major oversight"

Students not informed of masonry works until day before choosing rooms

Freshers ‘black up’ at St Hugh’s

Students apologise after donning 'Ni**as in Paris' costumes to bop

JCR motion throne out

The 'boring and sensible' 'kill' Balliol JCR motion

Wales of despair from Torfaen MP

Welsh Government’s Oxbridge Ambassador criticises lack of ambition among schoolchildren

"Subtext of racism" in universities

A new report finds 'little has changed since 1993' in academics' attitudes

Opportunity bursary delay

Technical error causes irritation among students

Pembroke building bridges

HRH the Duke of Kent open's Pembroke's renovation

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