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UK needs more lab space if it wants to be science superpower, ministers told

Leading property firms also call for more tax breaks and improved transport links to hubs ahead of autumn statement

The Guardian - UK

No flatulence, no sex in trees: Victorian children’s sanitised Chaucer to go on display

A new exhibition in Oxford charts the different ways the great Medieval poet has been interpreted by readers down the centuries

The Guardian - UK

A year on the River Thames, part four – in pictures

The fourth instalment in a series of photo essays looking at the life on the Thames. From dawn sculls to a duck derby and container barges, Jill Mead, a longtime London resident and urban photographer, shares the stories of the many characters working on and enjoying the river

The Guardian - UK

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Sargeson Prize runner-up

Wellington writer Jake Arthur has been judged runner-up at the 2023 Sargeson Prize for his short story "On Beauty", described by judge Vincent O'Sullivan as a story about "how and why a principled female professor tells a male student he is beautiful, and is called before an Ethics Committee"

Newsroom.co.nz

Four men charged over theft of £4.8m gold toilet from Blenheim Palace

They are due to appear at Oxford Magistrates’ Court over the theft of the fully functioning device.

Evening Standard

It’s worth a shot at getting in to Oxford

Letters: The chances of being admitted are higher than many students think, writes Megan Lee

The Guardian - UK

Six children in hospital after car crash in Oxford

Four children were left with serious injuries while two sustained minor injuries following the collision on Tuesday, police have said.

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Which shops are coming back? Paperchase in Tesco and HMV reopens in Oxford Street

After a four-year hiatus, HMV will reopen its former flagship location on London's Oxford Street

Evening Standard

Labour has betrayed British Muslims over Gaza – that’s why I resigned from the party

If Starmer can be so reckless with his words and lacking in principle now, what will happen if he becomes prime minister, asks Shaista Aziz, independent councillor for Oxford city council

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Under the Little Red Moon; Helen Charlston & Sholto Kynoch; Rigoletto – review

An ‘opera for tinies’ captivates its target audience; the mezzo of the moment dazzles at Oxford’s renamed song festival; and Oliver Mears’s #MeToo Verdi still resonates

The Guardian - UK

Kevin Spacey receives standing ovation in first stage appearance since trial

Actor delivered Shakespeare scene during lecture at Oxford theatre in memory of Roger Scruton

The Guardian - UK

Danny Dorling on hunger, heating and hope: ‘Britain has the worst stunted health in all of Europe’

Once, Dorling was viewed as a radical. Now his writing on inequality simply seems prescient. He discusses poverty, politics, and how we reached such a parlous state

The Guardian - UK

Trevor Burridge obituary

Other lives: Historian whose research and publications focused on the Labour party

The Guardian - UK

‘This is political expediency’: how the Tories turned on 15-minute cities

Party appears to have embraced conspiracy theory that the greener, healthier, more sustainable way of life is a ‘sinister’ attack on freedom

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The Conversation

Is there really a 1 in 6 chance of human extinction this century?

In 2020, Oxford-based philosopher Toby Ord published a book called The Precipice about the risk of human extinction. He put the chances of “existential catastrophe” for our species during the next century at one in six.

The Independent UK

Transport secretary Mark Harper attacks Oxford traffic plans as he doubles down on ‘15-minute cities’ claim

Council says: ‘Residents will still be able to drive to every part of the city at any time’

The Independent UK

Plant urges people to stay away in wake of Oxfordshire fireball

The company said they were ‘relieved’ no-one was hurt in the blast

Evening Standard

Lightning strike causes huge explosion at recycling plant in Oxfordshire

The fire occurred at Severn Trent’s Cassington AD facility near Yarnton on Monday

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The Guardian - UK

Lightning strike causes huge explosion at Oxford recycling plant

Witnesses report large ‘fireball’ in sky at Severn Trent Green Power facility but no one is thought to have been injured in the blast

The Independent UK

Fire breaks out at Oxfordshire processing facility after lightning strike

The fire occurred at Severn Trent’s Cassington AD facility near Yarnton on Monday.

Zenger

Oxford’s Violent Past: Medieval Students Fuelled Murder Rates 50 Times Higher Than Modern Cities

Boozed-up, axe-wielding students from rival nations clashed in the City of Dreaming Spires, says Cambridge study.

The Independent UK

Medieval map reveals Oxford students once made city England’s ‘murder capital’

Murder rate in medieval Oxford said to be 50 times higher than in 21st century English cities

The Guardian - UK

Medieval murder maps of three English cities offer window into past

Online project draws on 700-year-old records of coroners’ inquests in London, Oxford and York

The Guardian - UK

‘Used as dartboards’: rare British war comic art rescued from bins, skips and floods

Original drawings and paintings from 60s and 70s comics such as Hotspur and Commando will feature in an exhibition in Oxfordshire

The Guardian - UK

Porn addicts, vicars, madmen and murderers: Sarah Ogilvie on the Oxford English Dictionary’s unlikely writers

In a 70-year crowdsourcing project, a motley global public sent in the words and definitions that would form the first OED. Ogilvie reveals the shocking stories behind the book’s birth

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