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Plans for new Oxford graduate college approved

Oxford City Council has approved plans for a new postgraduate medical college in Headington. The plans also include a mental health hospital and a modern facility for brain sciences research, forming a new Warneford Park development centred on mental health and brain research.

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Union President-Elect found guilty of electoral fraud by Tribunal

Catherine Xu, the Oxford Union’s President-Elect for Michaelmas 2026, has been permanently barred from holding office at the Society after an Election Tribunal found that she orchestrated a scheme to impersonate legitimate voters at the Hilary Term 2026 election.

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Oxford research changes scientists’ understanding of the development of complex life

A collaborative study by researchers from the University of Oxford’s Museum of Natural History and Oxford’s Department of Earth Science, alongside experts from Yunnan University in China, has shown that complex animal life developed earlier than previously thought.

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Honorary Degree recipients announced for 2026

The University of Oxford has announced its 2026 honorary degree recipients, with seven individuals to be conferred with degrees at the Encaenia ceremony on 24th June.

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Jongleurs

Bar Risa, Hythe Bridge StreetSaturday 16 AprilAfter an hour and a half of freely flowing beer and copius numbers of cocktail pitchers, the Saturday...

Touched by Fire – BT Late

This intriguing drama deals with a theme which has never been more relevant to society, exploring as it does the nature of terrorism. Inspired...

British Sea Power Live

British Sea Power landed on a stage festooned with foliage and an assortment of plastic birds. The fresh-faced five have cultivated a country-life chic...

Drink: Browns

Browns 5 - 11 Woodstock Road 01865 319655 The bar in Browns may not immediately leap to mind as the ideal student hangout –...

‘We won’t win the war’

MI5 boss tells LMH students the Iraq-damaged ’War on Terror’ cannot be won The Director General of the Security Services (MI5) returned to her...

Bare-faced cheek of thief at Regent’s

A member of Regent’s Park kitchen staff had her belongings stolen during a bizarre incident at dinner on Tuesday evening. The man who made...

The grudge match: OUSU vs Oriel

OUSU, ever the whipping boy of right wing colleges, got one in the eye this week as it found itself sabotaged from within. No...

Illegal opportunities for student voters

Yesterday’s local and European elections were shrouded in controversy across the country as the postal vote system was lambasted from all sides and arrests...

Colleges force final chapter

Two central Oxford bookshops are set to close this year, because of ever increasing rent rises from the “utterly ruthless” colleges which own the...

Six hundred lawyers cunted

A New College student has been called up for a disciplinary hearing, after he ‘replied-all’ to the Law Soc mailing-list with a single abusive...

OUSU support Stu Two

OUSU will be debating an emergency motion today in support of the two OxStu journalists who are facing a Court of Summary Jurisdiction for...

Firefight closure may soon strike Bod

Firefighters in Oxford are recommending a ballot for industrial action at their conference on 15 June. Any industrial action is likely to cause disurption...

Massacre at Barbecue

The quiet of the small South Oxfordshire village of Henley was ripped apart this week as a father started shooting members of his family...

Ecstatic Strangler

A man is in court for strangling his fiancée to death in an Oxford hotel last year. He claims both he and his fiancée...

Five year olds care for druggies

Large numbers of Oxford children, some as young as five, are forced to care for their alcoholic and drugabusing parents, according to figures recently...

243 years until our next black dot

Oxford witnessed an astronomical spectacle not seen in living memory when Venus crossed the face of Sun last Tuesday. Earth’s closest planetary neighbour...

University of Life

A new book claims that life expectancy is linked to education: the longer you spend learning, the longer life you will have. Sir...

Charity runners and riders

Three thousand women from Oxford took part in a charity race to aid the struggle against cancer last Sunday. The organisers hope that £180,000...

Live ChCh Cartridges

34 live shotgun cartridges were found abandoned in a green Nike bag in Christ Church Meadows last Friday. The cartridges were found by...

Mansfield Smokes On

Members of Mansfield College JCR have voted to continue to allow students to smoke in the college bar. Passions were raised amid divided...

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