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Oxford Union election count suspended amid electoral fraud allegations

he Oxford Union’s Trinity Term 2026 election count has been suspended after the Returning Officer identified substantial evidence of interference, before any ballot boxes were opened.

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Mansfield College redevelopment plans approved by Oxford City Council

Oxford City Council unanimously approved Mansfield College’s development plans on Tuesday, 26th May. The project, known as the Estate Transformation Project, will be delivered by architects Feilden Fowles. Mansfield told Cherwell that the development would “provide students and the College with up-to-date facilities they need for generations to come”.

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Oxford Union town hall TT26: Meet the candidates

With polls set to open for Oxford Union elections tomorrow, Friday 12th June, Cherwell spoke to the candidates running to be President in Hilary Term 2027. Milo Donovan and Prajwal Pandey discussed their vision for the society, the challenges facing the Union, and how they would respond to recent controversies surrounding speaker invitations and free speech.

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Oxford law academic cancels lecture series on sex and gender following protests

Dr Michael Foran, Associate Professor of Law and Fellow of Keble College, has cancelled the remaining lectures in a series on sex, gender identity, and the law, following protests at two of the events.

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Union speech protestors ousted by ‘burly’ officials

The President of Botswana’s visitto the Oxford Union on Friday 14 October was interrupted by 25 protesters fromSurvival International, some of whom were Oxford...

OUSU condemns Coke and urges NUS boycott

OUSU Council has passeda motion condemning Coca Cola and resolving to cease commercial relations andall publicity with the company. It also resolves to lobby...

Welfare HIV e-mail hoax

A hoax e-mail warning ofHIV-positive needles being placed in cinema seats has caused panic across theUniversity as people anxiously forwarded the warning to friends....

‘What’s most interesting about squirrels?’ asks Admissions book

A book detailing bizarrequestions that have been asked at Oxbridge interviews has been produced by thecompany Oxbridge Applications. Tell Me About a Banana…So You...

University exhibits initial designs for Infirmary Masterplan

Oxford University has this week unveiled initialdesign plans as part of the Masterplan for the Radcliffe Infirmary developmentdue to commence mid-2007.The project team is...

Cleaners find faeces in SJC

Faeces and urine were found in St John’sCollege table tennis room by cleaning staff last Friday morning.Puddles of urine were discovered on the floor...

Oxford journalism success

Cherwell has been nominated for BestStudent Newspaper of the Year at the NUS/Mirror National Journalism Awards.Isis Magazine, which also is owned by Oxford Student...

ChCh poetry competition

The Christ Churchbased Christopher Tower Poetry competition has launched this year’s competitionwith a major increase in prize money. The competition, for budding poets aged16-18,...

Chinese funding scheme

Oxford University is establishing a newscholarship scheme for Chinese students. The project will run initially for twoyears from 2006 and is aimed at doctoral...

Fossils

Oxford-led palaeontologyresearchers have discovered some of the oldest, and smallest, remains of ourhuman relatives in Egypt.The mini teeth, jaw and facial bones of the...

BCG vaccine

A recent study led by Dr AjitLalvani, of the Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, has revealed that theBCG vaccine may not just prevent the...

Shelling out for Shelley

The Bodleian library and University College have acquired a new group ofletters written by the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley who was a undergraduate at...

Physics prize for Don

Kenneth Peach, Visiting Professorof Physics at Oxford University and Director of the John Adams Institutefor Accelerator Science, has been awarded the prestigious Rutherford Medal...

In from the streets

We carried on as best as we could. My boyfriend became my full-time carer. I continued working but I was having seizures in front...

Eat: Chutney’s

Where to go… for a curry without the crew-dateWhere: Chutney’sWhy: The kind of cosy setting you would describe as ‘intimate’, with a colourful modern...

Obituary: the gap year

The life of the Gap Year, though short (but such an amazing experience) was a blessing to all of us - temping agencies in particular, as...

League opens with goalfest

The college football season got off to a scorching start last Wednesday with twenty-five goals scored in the first four Premier League matches. The...

Blues kick through Bees

Oxford 33Pertemps Bees 21The Blues bounced back from a difficult last week with a much improved performance to beat semi-professional Pertemps Bees 33-21 at...

Exeter blown apart by Hall in point-a-minute thriller

Exeter 15Teddy Hall 76Teddy Hall continued their assault on the college rugby league with an embarrassingly one-sided victory over Exeter. The forwards set up...

Queen’s start season in style

Queen’s 4Corpus/Wadham 1Queen’s made a convincing start to their college hockey season with 4-1 defeat of Corpus/Wadham on Saturday. Queen’s dominated territory and possession,...

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