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Oxford researchers launch £11 million programme to tackle chronic pain

Researchers at the University of Oxford are leading a new six-year programme to develop brain implants and other cutting-edge solutions to treat chronic pain, which affects roughly 28 million...

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Oxford Theologian John Henry Newman honoured by Pope Leo XIV

The 19th-century Catholic theologian and Oriel College fellow Cardinal John Henry Newman has been...

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Former Oxford student acquitted after spraying Stonehenge orange

A Just Stop Oil activist and former student at the University of Oxford, Niamh...

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1930s artefacts uncovered during renovation of Oxford theatre

Renovations of the New Theatre on George Street have uncovered a variety of historic...

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Obituary: the celebrity wedding

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Eminent Corpus classicist and ex-Vice President dies at 92

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Oxford’s secret garden

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New College Warden dismisses ‘nonsense’ university league tables

Professor Alan Ryan,Warden of New College, criticised league tables in a recent opinion piece forthe Times Higher education Supplement, saying that the “problem with...

Film

In Her Shoes,dir. Curtis Hanson,out now: When Stupid Girl by Garbage announces the start of the film, alarm bells ring over the pretext of...

Hall become rugby champions

St Peter’s 8St Edmund Hall 15St Edmund Hall claimed an attritional, nerve-wrecked title decider against St Peter’s to regain the college rugby title from...

Soc. Shots

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Freshers fall to Tabs

Oxford Men 85Cambridge Men 96Oxford Women 92 Cambridge Women 98The Freshers’ individual performances suggested promise for the upcoming year. Oxford dominated the distance events...

What goes on tour…

The English music scene is a bizarre beast. To be sure, the market suffers from its pap bands that have endless sunshine blown up...

Raw Tongan power carries the day

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Morrisette for glory

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A constant delight

There are some subjects, writer John le Carré once said, “that can only be tackled in fiction”. It is curious, then, that Fernando Meirelles’...

The demise of broadmindedness

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Swimmers excel at season opener

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A slanging match

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Wheels within wheels

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Student stunt death avoidable

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Commercial success for chemists’ spin off

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Foreign theatre

Masqueradedir Rrimas Tuminas25 - 29 OctoberThe Oxford PlayhouseMikhail Lermontov, the great Rrussian playwright, had a fatal penchant for duelling. Fuelled with vodka, the duels...

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Oxford researchers launch £11 million programme to tackle chronic pain

Oxford Theologian John Henry Newman honoured by Pope Leo XIV

Former Oxford student acquitted after spraying Stonehenge orange

1930s artefacts uncovered during renovation of Oxford theatre

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