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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Mark Thompson takes up professorship at Oxford

Mark Thompson, the former director general of the BBC, is to be Humanitas Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford this term.

Jamal’s restaurant closes down

New Indian restaurant Arzoo opens in Jericho on the same site as venue Jamal’s, which closed earlier this summer

OUP hit out at photocopiers

Oxford University Press joins lawsuit against Delhi University’s photocopying service

St Catz porter’s inquest reaches verdict

The inquest into the death of David Lord, a night porter at St Catherine's College, has concluded that it was suicide

OUSU voted least popular student union in the UK

Oxford University and Oxford Brookes Student Unions rated worst in the country for 'student satisfaction'

Oxford alumna creates porn website

Cindy Gallop, a Somerville graduate, has created a new website which is attempting to change accepted standards of pornography by only using user-submitted videos

Fallen Oxford graduate repatriated

A University College graduate has been repatriated to Oxford after being killed while serving in Afghanistan

New app makes Oxford landmarks disappear

Tourists are left baffled after colleges switch location and the train station vanishes on the iPhone's latest navigation program

Boat Race protester found guilty

Trenton Oldfield, the man who disrupted this year's Boat Race, has been found guilty of causing a public nuisance

Director of Modern Art Oxford passes away

Turner Prize judge Michael Stanley is found dead in a garden, aged 37

Boat Race swimmer in court

Trenton Oldfield, who caused the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race to be suspended in April, faces the charge of causing a public nuisance

Iain Banks to attend Charity Literary Festival at LMH

Five writers will take part in the '5 x 15' festival at Lady Margaret Hall

Medical science facilities to be extended

Oxford University will purchase the site of Headington Park Hospital and use it to expand its medical science facilities on the Old Road campus

New Oxford school of government opens

The Blavatnik School of Government has admitted its first cohort of 39 students today, hoping to become 'the world’s leading centre for the training of future leaders in government.'