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The nightmare of trying to save our son Jack from Isis

THE LONGER READ: For 12 years, Sally Lane and John Letts have been fighting to bring their son Jack – held in Isis prisons in Syria and Iraq – back home to Oxford. They tell the story of how their lives fell apart to chief international correspondent Bel Trew

The Independent UK

‘People can see it – but can’t use it’: mystery of completed East-West Rail line that has no passenger trains

The East West Rail project linking Oxford to Milton Keynes was finished in 2024. There’s just one hitch: no services

The Guardian - UK

Endometriosis breakthrough as new scan could slash nine-year wait for diagnosis

The new imaging tool could spare patients from going through invasive procedures

The Independent UK

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Oxford’s new £185m humanities hub is polished, refined … and funded by a Trump ally

Billionaire Stephen Schwarzman’s portrait hangs discreetly in a building that promises cultural clout and architectural poise – yet can seem rather bland and bloodless

The Guardian - UK

Is this football's stupidest idea ever? Bonkers Football League plan revisited in viral video

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The perfect base for a Wind in the Willows weekend: a stylish B&B in the Chilterns

Taking a leaf out of Kenneth Grahame’s book, our writer spends a few days getting lost among the woods and riverside villages of Oxfordshire and Berkshire

The Guardian - UK

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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

Louder

Jon Anderson announces more UK live shows for September

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

The Times of India

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 Guardian - UK

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

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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

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

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.

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

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