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OPINION - Keir Mather, parliament’s youngest MP, arrived at Oxford fully formed

I REMEMBER meeting him on a street in Oxford through a mutual acquaintance. It was the month Donald Trump won the election. He was wearing a Breton T-shirt and pea coat. Good posture. Firm handshake. Clean cut. Handsome, I thought. Same as today.

Evening Standard

Enrique Zapata-Bravo obituary

Other lives: Psychiatrist who moved to England fleeing the Pinochet regime and worked to help refugees across the UK and around the world

The Guardian - UK

Bicester Village, Oxfordshire: the go-to spot in England’s beau monde county

How secure is Oxfordshire’s reputation as England’s beau monde county? Just ten years ago, the “Chipping Norton set” ran Britain from a cluster of farmhouses in this delightful part of the country, with Prime Minister David Cameron, and media royalty like Rebekah Brooks and Jeremy Clarkson were all neighbours. Now…

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‘It’s not just the food we missed’: three writers remember beloved restaurants that closed down

From student haunts to a first ‘proper’ meal out, why we mourn the places where we ate that are no longer with us

The Guardian - UK

Boy killed in BMW crash with two others was 'planning his 18th birthday party'

Elliot Pullen, 17, and Daniel Hancock, 18, and another 18-year-old boy were killed in a tragic crash in Marcham, Oxfordshire, in the early hours of Tuesday. Their families have now paid tribute

Daily Mirror

Oxford children’s choir has helped ‘heal souls’ of Ukrainian refugees

Choir tutor Yevheniia Diachenko said: ‘They feel support from each other and music helps to heal their souls.’

The Independent UK

English philosophers thought they had sloughed off the dead weight of history, but history suggests otherwise

Nikhil Krishnan’s intriguing and charming history, A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy at Oxford 1900-60, is organised around anecdotes rather than arguments. Krishnan is interested not only in “what people thought but what they were like”.

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MKM adds five new sites to national network with family business buy-out

Oxfordshire-based John Nicholls Trading branches and distribution centre added to Hull-headquartered operation

Birmingham Post

Classical home listening: new releases from the Dudok Quartet and Choir of Merton College, Oxford

The Dutch string quartet span Pérotin to Reich in a thoughtful recital, while anthems by Dyson, Howells, Elgar and Finzi get the full orchestral treatment

The Guardian - UK

Georgia gets Alabama, Texas on road in 2024

ATHENS, Ga. — Georgia football fans will have to wait a while longer to check out College Station, Texas, but Austin, Texas, is on the docket for 2024. So is Oxford, Miss.; Lexington, Ky.; and — get this — Tuscaloosa, Ala.

Tribune News Service

‘Nobody’s happy’: junior doctors in Oxford voice NHS frustrations

As 72-hour strike gets under way, there are concerns over staffing, infrastructure and morale

The Guardian - UK

Proposed Oxford to Cambridge railway line compared with Britain’s bendiest road

The proposed track between Bedford and Cambridge was criticised for being ‘full of twists and turns’.

The Independent UK

Controversial Oxford LTNs could be scrapped after slowing down ambulances

Life threatening ambulance calls delayed due to council’s traffic measure

The Independent UK

Key rail route reopens after 10-week closure to repair viaduct

Network Rail said passenger trains started running again over Nuneham Viaduct in Oxfordshire on Friday.

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Dining across the divide: ‘Most things he said were anecdotal, whereas I was trying to present stats’

They both support Labour – but are they going in the same direction when it comes to low-traffic neighbourhoods?

The Guardian - UK

Oxford University appoints UK’s first professor of LGBTQ+ history

Matt Cook, who has written on queer urban life and the Aids crisis, takes up the new post at Mansfield College

The National (Scotland)

Prime Minister defends Kathleen Stock's talk at Oxford ahead of planned protests

THE Prime Minister has said that Kathleen Stock should be allowed to deliver a speech at Oxford University ahead of planned protests.

The Independent UK

Sunak wades in to defend Kathleen Stock Oxford talk ahead of protests over trans views

Oxford University LGBTQ+ society to protest outside the address by the academic over her views on gender identity

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The Independent UK

Sunak defends Kathleen Stock talk at Oxford ahead of planned protests

The Oxford University LGBTQ+ society is due to stage a protest outside the address by the academic over her views on gender identity.

The Guardian - UK

St Mungo’s homelessness charity workers begin month-long strike

Members of the Unite union will picket in London, Brighton, Bristol and Oxford after ‘pitiful’ pay offer

Manchester Evening News

Pub issues brilliant 'beer garden rules' as hottest week of the year approaches

At last someone has said what the rest of us are all thinking"

The Independent UK

Oxford academic defends feminist Kathleen Stock’s right to freedom of speech

The Oxford University LGBTQ+ society is due to stage a protest outside the talk by the academic over her views on gender identity.

Insider UK

Edinburgh attracts increasing number of spin-out firms

Outside of Oxford, Cambridge and London, the Scottish capital is doing well for university-born businesses

Daily Record

'Doofus' who bragged about building dream holiday home won't be allowed to live there

Jack Lindsay, from Oxford, tried to apply for retrospective planning permission for his cabin in Cornwall after months of building work - but it was refused.

The Independent UK

Scandal-plagued Sackler pharma family’s name axed from Oxford University over role in opioid crisis

A number of institutions have ended their relationships with the Sackler family over its association with the US opioid crisis

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