The tacky Oxford Street stores that refuse to die: Why they are STILL blighting London's once iconic shopping district despite council crackdown

found 2025 › May › 09 (Fri) @ 00:10 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

An influx of US-style sweet stores selling overpriced merchandise took hold of Oxford Street in London during the pandemic as the total hit 40. And while the number has since fallen, some 18 still re…

British man, 36, died after falling from coconut tree in Rio de Janerio

found 2025 › May › 06 (Tue) @ 20:25 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Christopher Robert Cavey, from Oxford, plunged to his death on February 25 on Aventurero Beach on Ilha Grande, an island off the coast of Rio De Janeiro.

Herculaneum scroll's secret AUTHOR is uncovered after 2,000 years - as scientists use AI to virtually unwrap the priceless manuscript

found 2025 › May › 06 (Tue) @ 16:45 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

With help from AI, researchers have found the title and author inside one of the Herculaneum scrolls that is housed at the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford.

GM mosquitoes: inside the lab breeding six-legged agents in the war on malaria

found 2025 › May › 06 (Tue) @ 11:15 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

A British company is producing mosquitoes that carry a ‘self-limiting’ gene that kills off female offspring, limiting the spread of diseases such as malaria and dengue fever

In an unassuming building …

UN judge jailed in UK after forcing woman to work as slave

found 2025 › May › 02 (Fri) @ 19:02 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Lydia Mugambe stopped young Ugandan woman holding down steady job and made her work as her maid, court told

A UN judge has been jailed for six years and four months after forcing a young woman to work…

UN judge is jailed for six years after being convicted of forcing a young woman to work as a slave

found 2025 › May › 02 (Fri) @ 19:02 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Lydia Mugambe, 50, was found to have taken 'advantage of her status' over a Ugandan woman in the 'most egregious way', while she studied for a PhD in law at Oxford university .

Moment police raiding Oxford Street candy store find secret underground tunnel where staff fled after tourist charged £899 for TWO pack of sweets

found 2025 › May › 02 (Fri) @ 10:49 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

An unhappy tourist complained to Metropolitan Police on the weekend of April 12-13 after being charged nearly a grand for two packets of sweets at an Oxford street store.

The Pretender by Jo Harkin review – a bold and brilliant comedy of royal intrigue

found 2025 › May › 01 (Thu) @ 06:20 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

This fantasia on the life of Lambert Simnel, who finds himself a claimant to the English throne, is a romp through late-medieval identity and historical uncertainty

One day in 1484, strange men arrive…

Low traffic neighbourhoods are 'a failed experiment' admits local Tory leader after traffic calming scheme so infuriated Florence Pugh's father that he sold his cafe

found 2025 › Apr › 30 (Wed) @ 08:20 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

The first of the controversial LTNs were then first installed in Oxford in May 2022 - with the Oxfordshire County Council facing rabid opposition ever since.

Row breaks out over Bayeux Tapestry after historian claims he's found an 'extra penis'

found 2025 › Apr › 25 (Fri) @ 01:25 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Seven years ago, Oxford academic Professor George Garnett claimed to have identified 93 depictions of male genitalia. But now another scholar believes he has found another appendage.