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Oxford Chancellor delivers lecture on  Britain’s relationship with Europe

Chancellor of the University of Oxford, Lord William Hague, delivered the 2026 Europaeum Annual Lecture at the Sheldonian Theatre on 4th November. Hague called for closer UK-EU ties as...

Plans for new public square at Oxford’s Clarendon Centre approved

Oxford City Council has approved plans to transform Oxford's Clarendon Centre into a new public square, with trees, seating, and a water feature.

Pro-Palestine march calls for University’s divestment from Israel

Pro-Palestine protesters marched from Cowley to the Weston Library on Saturday 31st October, demanding...

Oxford Union overhauls voting rules after election scandals

Two forms of identification will be required to vote at the Oxford Union following consecutive instances of electoral fraud involving impersonation.

Oxford’s only strip club closed

The Lodge Gentlemen's Club stripped of its licence

Students produce poetry anthology

Students around Oxford produced the collection in aid of Oxfam's GROW campaign

Magdalen topples Merton in latest Norrington table

Magdalen leads latest Norrington Table, while Merton, historically the most successful college, plummets 13 places

Tolkien fans gather for the 38th Oxonmoot festival

Festival celebrates Tolkien's works on the Hobbit’s 75th anniversary and Bilbo Baggins's birthday

College accommodation issues cause problems across Oxford

Unfinished and overdue building works have prevented students from moving into college rooms allocated to them last year, with some forced to commute more than 30 minutes to their colleges.

St Aldate’s Tavern to reopen

A city centre pub is to reopen after refurbishment

Residents renew objections to Port Meadow Development

Although no objections were received during the planning permission stage, residents are now protesting about the planned building of student flats on Port Meadow

PPE finalists create revision musical

Three PPE third years are writing 'John Rawls’s A Theory of Justice: The Musical!'

Cory Bernardi withdraws from Oxford talk

Australian politician pulls out of speaking at Oxford University summit after making comments on same sex marriage

Mark Thompson takes up professorship at Oxford

Mark Thompson, the former director general of the BBC, is to be Humanitas Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford this term.

Jamal’s restaurant closes down

New Indian restaurant Arzoo opens in Jericho on the same site as venue Jamal’s, which closed earlier this summer

OUP hit out at photocopiers

Oxford University Press joins lawsuit against Delhi University’s photocopying service

St Catz porter’s inquest reaches verdict

The inquest into the death of David Lord, a night porter at St Catherine's College, has concluded that it was suicide

OUSU voted least popular student union in the UK

Oxford University and Oxford Brookes Student Unions rated worst in the country for 'student satisfaction'

Oxford alumna creates porn website

Cindy Gallop, a Somerville graduate, has created a new website which is attempting to change accepted standards of pornography by only using user-submitted videos

Fallen Oxford graduate repatriated

A University College graduate has been repatriated to Oxford after being killed while serving in Afghanistan

New app makes Oxford landmarks disappear

Tourists are left baffled after colleges switch location and the train station vanishes on the iPhone's latest navigation program

Boat Race protester found guilty

Trenton Oldfield, the man who disrupted this year's Boat Race, has been found guilty of causing a public nuisance

Director of Modern Art Oxford passes away

Turner Prize judge Michael Stanley is found dead in a garden, aged 37

Boat Race swimmer in court

Trenton Oldfield, who caused the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race to be suspended in April, faces the charge of causing a public nuisance

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