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Local election manifestos published as student candidates contest key wards

The Labour Party, the Green Party and the Liberal Democrats have released their manifestos ahead of the upcoming Oxford City Council elections, as a number of current and recent University of Oxford students contest seats across the city.

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Carl Benjamin disinvited from Oxford Union amid backlash from FemSoc and IHH

On Thursday, the Oxford Union held a debate on the motion ‘This House Believes That Being British is a ‘Birthright’, Not a Choice’. Carl Benjamin, who had been scheduled to speak, was disinvited from the event shortly before it took place.

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Second Oxfordshire Patriots protest this term met with counterprotesters

The Oxfordshire Patriots held a demonstration last Saturday in the city centre outside the Oxfordshire County Council offices. They were met by counter-protestors from Oxford Stand Up To Racism (OSUTR).

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University of Oxford paid private firm for ‘intelligence’ on student protest

The University of Oxford has been named as one of twelve UK universities that paid a private intelligence consultancy run by former military intelligence officials to monitor student activism.

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Religion is innate, says controversial study

A senior Oxford University researcher has claimed that humans are naturally disposed to believe in God from birth.

Topless Tab poses in mag

A third-year student at Cambridge University has caused outrage by posing topless in the student magazine Vivid.

Tangerine injures cyclist

A cyclist in Oxford has been seriously injured having been hit by a tangerine thrown from a passing car.

Sterling drop puts off Indians

Exchange rate fluctuations may result in a decline in international applicants to the UK, a report shows.

Brasenose finalists saved from room ballot woe

Brasenose College has reversed their decision to put finalists at the bottom of the room ballot for next year.

Queen makes Magdalen College visit

Her Majesty the Queen Elizabeth II and His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh visited Magdalen College, Oxford this Thursday.

Cherwell win website of the year award

Cherwell has won the Guardian Student Media Award for 'Student Website of the Year'.

Choir football strikes violent note

The annual choir football tournament was marred by controversy this weekend, with the first red card in the competition's history.

Oxford trains were 13 seconds from crash

Two trains carrying up to 300 people came within thirteen seconds of crashing into each other just outside Oxford.

OUSU elections dogged by technical problems

Hundreds of students have not received their voting codes and are unable to vote in the OUSU elections.

Bod aims to save English-language opera

The Bodleian Library has begun an appeal to raise £85,000 in order to conserve the manuscript of the first opera written in English.

Oxbridge to accept engineering diploma

Oxford and Cambridge have said that they will begin to accept a diploma qualification during admissions.

Oriel grad replaces Countdown’s Vorderman

An Oxford Maths graduate is to fill Carol Vorderman's shoes on long-running TV quiz Countdown.

Protests over Israeli president’s peace speech

Armed police flanked the Bodleian on Tuesday night as Shimon Peres arrived in Oxford to present a lecture to staff and students at the Sheldonian.

Oxford dons on BNP list

Three members of Oxford University have been discovered on a copy of the British National Party membership list.

Welfare fears over Union ball penguins

Animal welfare charities have expressed disgust at the taunting of live penguins at the Oxford Union's Ball last Saturday.

More racism rows

The editors of the New College bogsheet have been forced to apologise for an allegedly anti-Semitic article.

Oxford ‘failing’ foreign students

International students have spoken out about feeling isolated in the student community at Oxford.

Pepper spray attack at restaurant

Four students have been assaulted in a random pepper spray attack at a Chinese restaurant on Cowley Road.

Mumps cases in colleges

Oxford University is seeing an increase in the incidence of mumps.

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Local election manifestos published as student candidates contest key wards

Carl Benjamin disinvited from Oxford Union amid backlash from FemSoc and IHH

Second Oxfordshire Patriots protest this term met with counterprotesters

University of Oxford paid private firm for ‘intelligence’ on student protest

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