l IT IS disgraceful that certain county council employees opted to meet at the prestigious Heythrop Park resort for whatever reason (Saturday’s Oxford Mail front page) The venue is a sumptuous place to stay – and I should know as I refurbished it several years ago); I am sure the officers, in their pathetic reason for holding their meeting at Heythrop, could have found some other location at a far more acceptable cost.

Council leader Keith Mitchell says it won’t happen again, but I would like to remind him that it should not have happened in the first place – especially as he seems so intent on controlling expenditure.

Perhaps he has no control over his officers when they go out to play?

Adrian Taylor, Thames Court, Eynsham