Monday 7th 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,...

Hugh’s consistently inconsistent

St Hugh’s’ up and down season continued as they slumped to a 5-0 defeat to St Catherine’s before bouncing back to edge past Jesus...

All Souls award fellowship to state-school graduate

Fraser Campbell, aformer president of the Oxford Union, has become one of the few students whoattended a state school to be admitted as a...

Cross country Cuppers

Port Meadow saw almost a hundred competitors in the cross country club’s cuppers last weekend, covering a 10km course. in the women’s race, Lucia...

Liberte up in flames

Car on burning car symbolises the razing of French democracy to the ground, as violence flares across the republic. Last weekend saw the introduction...

Women’s rugby scrape past Cardiff

Oxford gave new meaning to the phrase ‘winning ugly’ as they struggled past Cardiff University in the BUSA Women’s Premier Division on Wednesday. The...

Eat: Cafe Opium

Where: Cafe OpiumWhen:Think hungover saturdays, when even after a lie-in toast seems like way too much to handle. it gets to 7pm and you...

Blues shine at Fours Head

Alex Cairns’ women’s squad provided another outstanding performance, winning two pennants in the Women’s Senior 2 and Senior 3 coxed fours, while the lightweights...

Exeter bar theft renews College’s theft concerns

Exeter’ssecurity came under scrutiny last Friday after its JCR bar was van­dalised byan intruder. Theculprit gained access to the bar during the day as...

Passe Notes: The Hildabeast

So, not a graceful creature of the savannah, I’m guessing? Sadly not. Rather an inmate at Oxford’s last remaining women’s college. Disappointingly though few...

Re-open nominations

When it comes to OUSU elections, what do we know? Cherwell has a rather regrettable habit of backing the loser on these occasions, and...

OUSU to review Target Schools

Discussions will take place atOUSU council this Friday to review the number of schools invited to Open Days and Regional Events through the Target...

Perfection in a cup

The best thing about the Café Metropole is the chairs. They are wicker, made out of real straw and have armrests which slope into...

Ethical investment protests continue

OUSU Social Justice Committeeorganised a walk around Oxfordon Wednesday afternoon to raise awareness about investment issues. Organisersestimated that between 50 and 100 people joined...

Are you getting enough

Professor Jim Horne of Loughborough University recently addressed the Oxford University Scientific Society with the question: "Why Sleep?" A room full of bright, talented...

St Anne’s bans football socials

St Anne’s football teamhas been banned from holding any team socials after an incident involving twomem­bers of the team and the College’s deputy dean. On...

The lot of the linguist

For many, Michaelmas term signals a return to a lifestyle we know so well that to describe it again would see innumerable clichés rehashed...

Ugly rumours of Blair Rockumentary

Channel 4 has revealed details of a documentary that will chronicle Tony Blair’s time as the singer in a student band he fronted while...

The other Oxford

I work at St Hilda’s College library and a lot of what I do involves making sure that the library runs efficiently. That’s not...

Trio guilty of ‘honour killing’

Three Oxford residents have been found guilty ofstabbing to death Brookes student Arash Ghorani-Zarin. ChomirAli, a Bangladeshi waiter, and his two sons Mujibar Rahman...

Obituary: the celebrity wedding

IT IS with an impeccable single tear that we announce the untimely death of the Celebrity Wedding, though it far outlived the marriages of...

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