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Blavatnik bias

3:41pm Friday 17th May 2013

Sir – I suppose I have attended hundreds of planning committees over my professional life and I am well aware if the meeting is fair and even.

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City not to blame

3:40pm Friday 17th May 2013

Sir – Further to my letter (May 9) regarding the closing of amenities in West Oxford, I must correct my statement that the Oxford City Council is to blame regarding the Bengal Tandoori.

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Warden’s last laugh

3:39pm Friday 17th May 2013

Sir – Your interview with Sir Christopher Ball, former Warden of Keble College (Feature, May 2), reminded me of an episode I witnessed during my student days, some 30 years ago.

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Good tradition

3:38pm Friday 17th May 2013

Sir – I went to May Morning as usual and was delighted to find that the crowd was much better behaved than normal.

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God is alive and well

3:36pm Friday 17th May 2013

Sir – The Bishop of Oxford announces a three per cent annual increase in church attendance over the diocese. (And that’s just the Church of England — there is evidence of growing congregations in other churches, especially the no-nonsense, gospel-preaching ones.)

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Hydro is win-win for people and fish

3:35pm Friday 17th May 2013

Sir –Re: (Anglers set to fight hydro schemes, May 9). I am an angling writer, life member of the Angling Trust and member of a community micro-hydro group in Wolvercote.

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Angling causes harm

3:33pm Friday 17th May 2013

Sir – The Angling Trust’s stated position on hydroelectric power is, ‘we do not believe it is up to us to prove damage, but that the hydro-operator should prove that they are not causing damage’.

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Asset to Oxford

3:32pm Friday 17th May 2013

Sir – It is time surely to raise once more the profile of the Covered Market.

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Tracing relatives

3:31pm Friday 17th May 2013

Sir – I have been researching my family tree on my father’s side and am keen to search out relatives in order to fill some missing gaps so I that I will be able to complete my search.

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Great design talent

11:26am Tuesday 14th May 2013

Sir – The obituary appreciation of Rick Mather (April 25) should remind all Oxonians of how fortunate Oxford has been to have had Rick Mather to demonstrate the supple and beautiful ways in which contemporary architecture can fuse and infuse earlier styles: the ARCO and Sloane Robinson Buildings at Keble College, the new library and archive room at The Queen’s College, the theatre/auditoria at Corpus Christi and Worcester respectively and, of course, the wondrous temple of light and shade which is the new Ashmolean, will be used, viewed, and admired for centuries to come, should humanity endure.

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