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Mistake to remove buses

12:51pm Wednesday 19th June 2013

Sir – Our county council is a national leader in promoting buses — except in central Oxford, where it keeps dismembering what was once a simple, well-connected network.

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Accounting thuggery

12:49pm Wednesday 19th June 2013

Sir – I write with regard to Oxford City Council’s desire to increase the rents in the Covered Market by between 50 and 70 per cent.

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Westgate homes

12:48pm Wednesday 19th June 2013

Sir – We are used to the council inventing figures, for example, to justify the demolition of Temple Cowley pools.

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Thoughtless students

12:47pm Wednesday 19th June 2013

Sir – Last Friday, I was visiting Oxford when I saw groups of students throwing food and drink over each other.

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NHS bonuses

12:46pm Wednesday 19th June 2013

Sir – One cannot but agree with the very adverse comments made by several organisations about the disgraceful bonuses awarded to the NHS directors (Directors of hospital trust shared bonus pot of £135,000, June 6).

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999 delays not new

12:45pm Wednesday 19th June 2013

Sir – The problems of patients being kept in ambulances outside of accident and emergency at the JR (A and E) in an attempt to avoid exceeding waiting time targets is not a new one.

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Long live language

12:42pm Wednesday 19th June 2013

Sir – Melinda Tilley “absolutely disagrees” with Professor Simon Horobin apparently on comments he made at the Hay Literary Festival (Education head hits out at don’s remarks, June 6), reported by Damian Fantato to the effect “that teachers need to scrap traditional spelling and grammar rules”.

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Orlternativ spellin

12:41pm Wednesday 19th June 2013

Sur – Ai right in risponce tu ye rtickle on Prerfesser Horrorbin’s aideeaz on ‘kerekt’ spellin (Oxfordshire Limited Edition, June 2013).

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Artistic ‘horse-cure’

12:40pm Wednesday 19th June 2013

Sir – The latest Art via Cinema show, the 150: Munch exhibition, showing at the Phoenix on June 27, will be eagerly awaited by Munch admirers because it draws from Oslo’s two major sources of the artist’s work, the National Gallery and the Munch Museum.

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Aircraft pollution

12:39pm Wednesday 19th June 2013

Sir – The final episode of BBC’s TV topical science programme Bang Goes the Theory dealt with the huge problem Britain is still facing with air pollution.

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What has changed?

12:38pm Wednesday 19th June 2013

Sir – When planning permission for Shilton Park was granted, the residents of Brize Norton were given assurances that no further development to the east of Carterton would be permitted.

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Shut street for market

12:36pm Wednesday 19th June 2013

Sir – I have just returned from a holiday in East Yorkshire. Every town we visited, or passed through, had their high street or market square closed to traffic on a Thursday, Friday, and/or Saturday, for market days. If these towns can close their main thoroughfare for at least one day a week, why can’t we have our high street closed on a Friday and Saturday for our market days? After all, it is such a small detour. D Wyse, Kidlington

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