Getty Images A total beamer – a fan deals with Scotland’s elimination from a football tournament The Oxford English Dictionary is hoaching with new Scottish words – with beamer, bummer and tattie scone among 13 new entries. There is also a listing for Scotland’s shoogly subway trains – not the kind of place where passengers...
Mayor of London The mayor’s plan involves the diversion of 16 bus routes that use Oxford Street Plans to pedestrianise parts of Oxford Street will move forward “as quickly as possible”, the mayor of London has said. City Hall claims two thirds of people support the principle of banning traffic on one of the world’s...
Chris Slegg & Olivia Demetriades BBC News, London Row360/The Boat Race Company James Doran and Luca Ferraro (l-r) are competing in their third Boat Race on Sunday This Sunday sees the 170th men’s and 79th women’s Oxford and Cambridge boat races take place on the Thames. Crews will battle it out over a 4.25mile stretch...
Ever found yourself speechless in the presence of overwhelming cuteness, like your baby nephew or the cat video you saw on Instagram? There’s now a word for it: gigil. Gigil (pronounced ghee-gill) is part of a list of “untranslatable” words, or those that do not have English equivalents, that have been added to the Oxford...
At an Oxford City Council meeting on Monday 24 March, councillors unanimously voted for an “ethical investment and procurement” process, specifically in connection to Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza. And the motion’s proponent, Cllr Barbara Coyne, said in a press release: I hope this motion will be thoroughly implemented, and that its passage may pave...
It was December 2004. Oxford United, the 1986 League Cup winners, were in a slump, having dropped from the second tier to the fourth since 1999 – and were sliding down League Two when owner Firoz Kassam sacked Graham Rix. Kassam, the club’s unpopular owner, invited out-of-work manager Chris Turner to watch their 1-0 defeat...