News in Brief
Lancashire teenager Amy Carr, crowned Student of the Year, said she would be spending her £250 prize money on beer. Miss Carr has earned a place at Oriel to study French and German next year.
Miss Carr gained four A-levels Grade 'A's at Lancaster Girls' Grammar School. The examining body selected her on the basis of her overall academic performance.
"I couldn't believe it when I found out I'd won because I thought the exams went okay but I didn't really work that hard."
The Prime Minister of Romania, His Excellency Adrian Nastase, delivered his only public speech of his visit to the UK in the Chamber of the Oxford Union last night (Wednesday). He was due to talk on 'Romania's One Track Route Towards European Integration.' The speech was contentious in that it is only a year since the European Commission stated that Romania "cannot be regarded as a functioning market economy".
Oxford United hopes its run of bad luck will end after the Bishop of Oxford lifted a gipsy curse from the Kassam Stadium. It is believed that when the field was sold to the football team, the gipsies who used to use the land were banned from using it and cast the curse. Oxford United's chaplain was of the view that 'You could just regard it as an old wives' tale, or you could take it seriously, but Oxford United's history of bad luck speaks for itself.'
Students were deeply disappointed and bitterly cold last Wednesday as popular club night Juice at Park End was evacuated after a fire alarm went off. No injuries were reported.
8th Nov 2001