The Latest Breaking News from Oxford

The news that the first successful UK womb transplant has been performed at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford has been greeted as the “dawn of a new era” in reproductive medicine.

The Albert Hall swooned to the sound of the Sinfonia of London and was silenced by Glyndebourne’s semi-staged Poulenc, while in Oxford you couldn’t move for great pianists

Crumbley has been sentenced to life without the chance of parole for killing four classmates at Oxford High School in November 2021

Imirowicz’s sentence was reduced after she was convicted of killing her father using lye and water

The remains of a miniature dachshund-like dog have been found at what was once the villa of a wealthy family, suggesting that people kept pets during the Roman era. The 1,800-year-old remains, among artefacts recovered from a nature reserve near Oxford, suggest that it was 20cm tall at the shoulder,…

Family members of East Timorese in UK denied right to visit, as Home Office says too many hoping to work illegally

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.

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

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…