The Latest Breaking News from Oxford

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…

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

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

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

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”.

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

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

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.