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Transgender rights protest in central Oxford following updated EHRC guidance

A march took place this afternoon in central Oxford in support of transgender rights, after new Code of Practice introduced by the UK’s Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC). 
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Oxford launches initiative to measure national cohesion and belonging

The University of Oxford has launched ‘The National Conversation’, a new initiative to understand the public attitudes towards community, division, and Britain at large.
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Physics teaching to relocate amid asbestos concerns

The University of Oxford is relocating its undergraduate physics practical teaching from the Denys Wilkinson Building amid concerns about the presence of asbestos at the ageing site.
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Oxford and Ohio Universities receive £9.24 million in funding for research into rare blood cancers

The Oxford-Harrington Rare Disease Centre has received a share of a £9.24 million investment for their research into chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL).
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Lauded by numerous international film festivals and winner of 12 Japanese Oscars, Twilight Samurai arrives on our shores with impressive credentials. Treading similar ground...

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When the background music ceased and the speakers rang with a clean, open strum, no one at the bar knew what to do. Was...

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The new album from Kathryn Williams is something of a disappointment. After the gloriously melancholic Old Low Light, Relations – an album of covers...

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Since, in his typically understated style, bespectacled guitarist Graham Coxon walked out on Blur, there has been a year-long holding of breath to see...

Out of the Blue: The International Men of Mystery

I associate the dreaming spires of Oxford with Gregorian chants and boys’ choirs. Until I heard Out of the Blue, I was sceptical that...

M J Hayland: How the Light Gets in

There is something about the coming-of-age story that never grows old. While some writers have transformed the tale of adolescence into either sentimental kitsch...

Michael Faber Under The Skin

Faber’s first novel tears away protective layers of propriety, leaving the flesh and bone of society quivering and in full view. The realisation that...

Trebles all round for Oxford

Varsity Athletics The 130th match against Cambridge was characterised by strong performances on both the track and the field, culminating in victory for the...

Gale Grant only Shields Oxford pain

Women’s Cricket After a superb victory against Cambridge in April, the fortunes of the Oxford women’s cricket side took a tumble, as weather and...

Stearn shows no Varsity nervous Tics

Varsity Seconds Cricket Cambridge Crusaders 241/9 Oxford Authentics 242/5 A dogged unbeaten hundred from all-rounder Chris Stearn, a veteran of an incredible ten...

Oxford refuse to hibernate

Blues Rugby The bulk of the season may be over, but for the Blues rugby side, this week has brought a starting amount of...

Cambridge stay on target

Varsity Archery Cambridge 3417 Oxford 3187 In ideal conditions on the backs of St. John’s College, Cambridge, Oxford University Company of Archers put...

A breeze for LMH

Sailing Cuppers LMH, starting out as pre event favourites, held their composure and secured their first sailing cuppers win in recent years. Fourteen college...

Don’t mix your drinkers

Outraged Oriel students have rallied round their college staff in a confrontation over whether they should be allowed to drink at the college bar....

Teenage girl raped on way to school

A teenage girl has been savagely raped while walking to school in Oxford. Thames Valley Police have appealed for witnesses and urged all women...

Celebrities amongst the spires

The rich, famous and powerful descended on Oxford last week. The Prime Minister of China, Wen Jiabao, took tea in Christ Church as part...

Mast debate grips LMH

LMH’s JCR is to hold a referendum on whether to allow a mobile phone mast to be built in the College. The proposal...
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