Wednesday 9th July 2025

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Students frustrated over filming at Brasenose College during exam season

Students at Brasenose College expressed their frustration last week after scenes for a forthcoming sequel to My Fault: London were shot on the College’s grounds. At the time of...

Hertford College faces student criticism for limiting display of Pride flag

Hertford College is facing backlash from students following a request that the Middle Common...

Encaenia in photos: Oxford’s honorary degree award ceremony

The University of Oxford awarded eight honorary degrees at its annual Encaenia awards ceremony...

Oxford admissions report reveals significant college and subject disparities

Oxford University has released its Annual Admissions Statistical Report, providing information about undergraduate applications,...

Johnson wins Tory Mayoral Candidate Election

Oxford alumnus Boris Johnson has won the election to become the Tory Candidate for next year's London Mayoral race. The popular MP won the...

OxGoss Replaced by TSR

Rumour-mill Oxford Gossip was deleted earlier this week, with the URL directing viewers to The Student Rooms's Oxbridge forums.In the last fortnight the forums...

Don’t mention the w-word

Mixed messages for the grim North from the Munich-based Süddeutsche Zeitung. A travel piece on the east coast of England from the Wash upwards...

You started it… You invented printing

It’s some 600 years since Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg was born in the historic German city of Mainz. After moving to...

Review: Norman Lovett

Familiar to many as “Holly” from the BBC sitcom Red Dwarf, Norman Lovett will be coming to St Hilda’s Jacqueline du Pré Building on...

Sir Victor Blank bows to pressure to quit University Council

A senior businessman who sits on the highest executive body in the University has stepped down after a group of dons launched an offensive...

Sizing Up the Internet

While the editors here at 24 have been updating our archives, I have been somewhat off-duty in my coverage of the Internet and student...

University Trials Free Cycle Service

Staff at Oxford University will soon be able to use a free ‘pick up and pedal’ cycling scheme, inspired by those set up in London and...

Seasick Steve at the Edinburgh Fringe

'Got any spare change, Stevie?' yells a Scot from the back of the sell-out crowd. 'I do now, brother,' replies Steve. 'An' it's mostly...

Online UCAS delays

UCAS’ move to scrap traditional paper applications in favour of the online system has caused problems in the efficiency of this year’s Oxford admissions...

A Victorian invasion

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a Hollywood studio in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a Victorian novel...

Draft corporate plan may lead to graduate cuts

A follow up to January’s Green Paper on university governance has been published outlining a strategy for improving the University’s financial status. In a...

Review: Seasick Steve

'Got any spare change, Stevie?' yells a Scot from the back of the sell-out crowd. 'I do now, brother,' replies Steve. 'An' it's mostly...

Police Plan Cowley Road Crackdown

Police are planning a crackdown on alcohol-related crime in the Cowley Road area, to coincide with the return of students.The first two weeks of...

Pick of the week

Best start to the termWith a distinct absence of plays kicking off Trinity Term, there is disappointingly little competition for this slot. Be this...

Oxford tops University league tables

Oxford has come top of a list of UK universities in an annual study carried out byThe Guardian and Campus Pi, an applied research...

Oxbridge airline fails to get off the ground in time

AlphaOne Airways, an airline started by eighteen year old Oxfordshire resident Martin Halstead, has delayed all flight activity until further notice, failing to make...

Reality Show Restaurant Goes Bust

Oxford restaurant Porters, which features in chef Raymond Blanc’s new reality TV show ‘The Restaurant’, has closed.The show sees nine couples take an empty...

Life in the Fast Lane

A motorist has admitted to travelling at 172mph on a road in Oxfordshire – the fastest speeding incident of its kind recorded in Britain. ...

Cherwell24 meets poet Jenny Lewis

Jenny Lewis performs one of her poems for Cherwell24 at the Oxford Literary Festival 2007.

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