Friday 28th November 2025

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Pembroke accommodation ‘Highly Commended’ at Oxford Preservation Trust awards

A renovation project, retrofitting and refurbishing student accommodation at Pembroke College, was “Highly Commended” at the 2025 Oxford Preservation Trust (OPT) awards earlier this month. At the awards ceremony,...

COP30 sees launch of Oxford TIDE Centre’s Nature’s Intelligence Studio

The COP30 summit, which concluded on 21st November in Brazil, saw the launch of...

Derelict Debenhams store to be turned into innovative laboratory space

The former Debenhams department store on the corner of George Street is to be...

Waste mountain discovered near proposed University development site

A mountain of waste described as an “environmental catastrophe” has been dumped by a...

Mystic River

OdeonFriday 17 – Thursday 23 October In Eastwood’s latest directorial outing, a child playing with two friends is abducted but subsequently escapes. A few...

Cabin Fever

OdeonFriday 17 – Thursday 23 October Cabin Fever is a welcome return to the format of the much loved traditional horror movie. The story...

Spellbound

OdeonFriday 17 – Thursday 23 October Thirteen year olds spelling excessively long words is not standard material for an edge of your seat thriller,...

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

OdeonFriday 17 – Thursday 23 October 1899. The world is on the brink of war as a villain calling himself Phantom reaps doom and...

Albums: Siobhan Donaghy, Revolution In Me

Despite the release of two singles ‘Overrated’ and ‘Twist Of Fate’ (both included here), Ms Donaghy is probably still best known as the Sugababe...

Albums: 22-20’s, 05/03

The 22-20s:05/03Out next week ‘05/03’ is a modern rarity: a live album that does full justice to a very good live act. From the...

Albums: Travis, 12 Memories

Travis:12 MemoriesOut now After a promising start to their career, Travis have recently become much more of a poor man’s Coldplay. The uninspiring blend...

Singles: Electric Six, Dance Commander

Electric Six:Dance CommanderOut now You have to love Electric Six, only if for being Americans who actually understand irony. They can’t sing and can’t...

Singles: Desert Sessions

Desert Sessions: Feat. Josh Homme/PJ Harvey Out 3 November Desert Sessions are booked to appear on Later With Jools Holland this year. Can you...

Singles: Sophe Ellis-Bexter, Mixed-up World

Sophie Ellis-BextorMixed up WorldOut now The cover of Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s new single features bright primary colours and lettering that smacks of the over-enthusiastic eighties...

Gig: Arab Strap, The Zodiac, 6 Oct

I’ve waited three years for this to happen; the sainted Arab Strap, on the hallowed ground of the Zodiac. Sadly, Messrs. Moffat and Middleton’s...

Scare tactics

This week’s comments from Lord Butler in favour of privatisation, and the ‘coincidental’ publication of the details of a report by the New College...

Oxford’s first Sports Scholar

Chris Statter speaks to top pentathlete Aly Rowett, about her Dark Blue ScholarshipAly Rowell is the first Dark Blue Scholar. An exceptionally talented pentathlete...

Cherwell takes up…boxing with James Glancy

Training with the boxing team was a leisurely affair. I watched them run and sprint, then attempt twenty press-ups, twenty sit-ups and then twenty...

Community work

Sports OutreachThe Combined Universities of Oxford Sports Outreach Scheme (known as CommUniSports) was designed to try to improve existing sports provision in the local...

Makeshift Blues hit for four

Amateur Football Association put Oxford to the sword in pre-season friendly BLUES FOOTBALL Oxford 0 Amateur Football Association 4 An experimental Blues side, missing...

Climb every mountain

MOUNTAINEERING Over the summer, members of the Oxford University Mountaineering Club travelled to Chamonix, in the French Alps. We practised ropework on a glacier,...

Oxford plan to net further success

BLUES BASKETBALL With four consecutive appearances in the BUSA final and a record fourteen straight Varsity match wins, there is a lot of pressure...

Oxfored clinch warriors draw

BLUES RUGBY Worcester Warriors 26 Oxford 26 The Blues bid to regain their Varsity title looked decidedly promising on Monday night, as they forced...

Tkchuk try lifts Canada

RUGBY WORLD CUP Wales 41 Canada 10 Blues prop Kevin Tkachuk scored a seventy-first minute try as his native Canada collapsed to a 41-10...

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