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Construction set to commence for new £190m science park

Construction firm Bowmer + Kirkland secured the contract last week to build Fabrica, Oxford’s largest commercial science park to date, with construction beginning at the end of May. The...

India Society cancels cricket match with Pakistan Society

Oxford India Society have cancelled a scheduled cricket match with Oxford Pakistan Society, citing...

Christ Church proposes construction of new graduate centre

Christ Church has proposed the refurbishment and extension of the Faculty of Music building...

Oxford’s DPIR issues guidance on US travel for students

Guidance on travel to the US has been shared with all postgraduate students in...

‘Such a Terrible Waste’

St Catherine’s student dies after traffic accident on Cowley Road Emilie Harris, a twenty-year-old student at St Catherine’s College, has been killed after being...

Student ‘critical’ after fall

A Christ Church student is in a critical condition in hospital after falling from a first-floor window in Blue Boar Quad. The first...

Anger at ‘costly’ Oriel rejection

The decision by Oriel undergraduates to remain outside OUSU has been criticised by 23 JCR Presidents who feel that their members “subsidise” services which...

OUSU gambles with new Entz venture

After a year in which OUSU made less than £5,000 from running Entz, the student union has decided to create a position with a...

Black bike market at Union

Questions of dodgy dealing have arisen regarding the sale of bicycles at the Oxford Union this week, following a complaint from a student who...

Radiohead serenade Oxford

A lucky Oxford audience salivated over a topless Jude Law and bartered over Jonny Depp’s pants last Sunday to raise money for terminally ill...

Oxford to be cigarette free city?

An Oxford city councillor has called for a citywide ban on smoking in public places, provoking anger from city pubs and students. Susanna...

Shotgun hold-up at Co-op

Two men violently robbed an Oxford supermarket last Friday night, escaping with a five-figure sum. The robbery occurred at approximately 10.30pm at the...

Tabs win second

Oxford has finished runners up to Cambridge in The Guardian’s league table of UK Universities for the second year running. It scored 83.33 out...

Tolkien’s House for Sale

No. 20 Northmoor Road, the Oxford house in which J.R.R. Tolkein lived for seventeen years and wrote The Hobbit, is up for sale. It...

Oxford to Oxford in an Oxford

A couple have set out to travel from Oxford, England to Oxford New Zealand in a 1954 Morris Oxford. They expect their mammoth journey...

Boat race inspires Chelsea garden

An exhibition at this year’s Chelsea flower show has been created to celebrate the 175th Anniversary of the Oxford and Cambridge boat race. ...

Motion in the Ocean

St John’s JCR has decided to buy an island. The “Motion in the Ocean” was passed on Sunday in an attempt to alleviate the...

Queen’s sized Bedrooms

Members of Queen’s College JCR have accused their President of using a provision which ensures tall people do not get attic rooms to fix...

PM Oxford Loner

India’s new Oxford-educated Prime Minister was a “loner” with little charisma, according to his former doctoral supervisor. Manmohan Singh studied economics at Nuffield...

Bus disaster kills boy

An eleven-year-old girl saw her thirteen-year-old brother killed on Monday, when their school bus collided with a tractor. Tomas Ryan-Vig from Bicester, ten miles...

RON Labours to Win

RON has reared his ugly head once again in Oxford JCR elections. Last week, the ubiquitous but eternally silent candidate stormed to victory in...

Crackdown on Euro hooligans’ violence

The Home Office has announced strict new measures in an attempt to curb the violence of England supporters in Euro 2004. A record number...

Thoughts of the week

Undersexed, underpriced and over here. The Silver Ring Thing is the latest import from the States, and I bet it isn’t even really made...

DRINK: Raoul’s Bar

Raoul’s Bar 32 Walton St 01865 553 73 Raoul’s on Walton Street has an astounding selection of cocktails. I have never been so...