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Ignore the knockers, London is still a fabulous hub for founders

The Oxford-Cambridge-London triangle is one of the UK’s greatest strengths

Evening Standard

Channel 4 forced to apologise for swearing during boat race live coverage

BBC Boat Race veteran Clare Balding and reality TV star Jamie Lang were both forced to issue on-air apologies

Evening Standard

Cambridge win men’s Boat Race after Oxford end losing run in women’s event

The wind created gruelling sea-like conditions on some sections of Thames.

The Independent UK

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The Boat Races 2026: Cambridge men cruise to victory, Oxford women end losing streak – as it happened

Oxford won their first women’s Boat Race since 2016 but Cambridge’s men made it four in a row

The Guardian - UK

Boat Race gets reality star revamp to attract new audiences

Channel 4 hopes that adding reality stars to their coverage will boost the appeal of the Boat Race

The Independent UK

Where to watch the football: A complete list of the best 300+ pubs, bars and venues in the UK for live sport

Here's where to watch the football, with every fine pub and establishment in your area showing the match this weekend

FourFourTwo

How UK’s university towns became a draw for Indian students in summer

Every August, a quiet transformation takes place in Oxford. The undergraduates are gone, the colleges have exhaled, and in their place arrive young students from Mumbai, Delhi, Lagos, and Seoul, cycling along the Cherwell, debating ideas in wood-panelled seminar rooms, and doing something that would otherwise remain entirely out of…

The Times of India

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Abstract erotica, Japanese giants face off and spring arrives in Oxford – the week in art

Alexis Ralaivao’s provocative paintings, Hiroshige and Hokusai in perspective and a grand survey of flowers in fine art – all in your weekly dispatch

The Guardian - UK

BBC loses Boat Race broadcast rights after nearly a century

Channel 4 wins the television rights while Times Radio will also carry coverage, as the BBC steps away from the historic Oxford-Cambridge race

Evening Standard

Jon Anderson announces more UK live shows for September

Former Yes singer Jon Anderson will now play shows in Brighton, Oxford, Nottingham and Portsmouth

Louder

Oxford museum set to return 500-year-old bronze statue taken from Tamil Nadu temple

A 16th-century bronze statue of Saint Tirumankai Alvar, taken from a Tamil Nadu temple, is returning to India from the UK. Acquired by the Ashmolean Museum in 1967, its provenance became questionable after a 2019 discovery. Following an investigation and a formal claim by India, the museum has agreed to…

The Times of India

Nvidia and UK Wealth Fund invest in British autonomous driving startup Oxa

Oxford-based firm has raised $103m for commercial development of software for self-driving industrial vehicles

The Guardian - UK

Trial date set for Oxford student, 21, accused of stirring up racial hatred at pro-Gaza protest

Samuel Williams denies using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour in Whitehall, central London

Evening Standard

Digested week: Spa days for nerds and other coping mechanisms

Discovering Oxford’s Norrington Room, leaning into Pancake Day sainthood and dreaming of a house just for introverts

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Another World by Melvyn Bragg review – portrait of the broadcaster as a young man

Leaving behind Cumbria for Oxford in the late 1950s, Bragg navigates class and culture in a world on the brink of change

The Guardian - UK

Arthur Stockwin obituary

Other lives: Scholar of Japanese politics and a tireless builder of bridges between Japan and the UK

The Guardian - UK

Chris Dodd obituary

Journalist, author and Guardian rowing correspondent who was a founder of the River and Rowing Museum in Henley

The Conversation

Mapping cemeteries for class – how students used phones and drones to help a city count its headstones

If you told me a decade ago that I’d become an expert in mapping cemeteries, I would’ve laughed and been very confused about the dramatic turn my professional life must’ve taken at some point.

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Evening Standard

Le Manoir: Famous restaurant appoints three-star French chef Arnaud Donckele as Raymond Blanc steps back

The Oxfordshire restaurant and hotel is currently closed for redevelopment

Sports Illustrated

Why Ole Miss QB Trinidad Chambliss Didn’t Want to Follow Lane Kiffin to LSU

Trinidad Chambliss explains why he’s staying at Ole Miss over following Lane Kiffin to LSU.

The Independent UK

‘It’s pretty gnarly’: Behind the scenes at Trial Eights, the battle for selection at the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race

EXCLUSIVE: Behind the famous annual race is months of preparation, cold, dark mornings on the freezing water, and an internal battle for selection almost as nerve-wracking as the big day itself, as Flo Clifford finds out

Sports Illustrated

When Does LSU Play Ole Miss Next Season? Lane Kiffin’s Return to Oxford Scheduled

Lane Kiffin is going back to Ole Miss for one weekend in September.

The Guardian - UK

Roy Darke obituary

Other lives: Town planning lecturer and Labour councillor in Sheffield and later in Oxford

The Guardian - UK

Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture

I knew that a revolution in our understanding of soil could change the world. Then came a eureka moment – and the birth of the Earth Rover Program, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Conversation

From the Miller’s Tale to King Lear’s roaring sea, a history of flooding in literature

Geoffrey Chaucer’s Miller’s Tale is renowned for its salacious storyline of sexual misadventure. Set in 14th-century Oxford, it tells the tale of John the Carpenter, a husband so terrified that another “Noah’s flood” is coming to drown the world that he sleeps in a basket in the attic – freeing…

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