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Some schools will be over-subscribed
5:25pm Thursday 27th November 2008
Sir – You recently drew attention to pressure on primary school places in Oxford city (Report, November 20) I should like to place these facts in a little more context.
Comments (0)Grasp traffic nettle
5:25pm Thursday 27th November 2008
Sir — The Tories’ ‘Transform Oxford’ leaflet, which has been produced with an eye to next June’s county elections, is actually a mixture of ideas emanating from several hard-working Oxford bodies.
Defining moment
5:26pm Thursday 27th November 2008
Sir – We are at a defining moment in Oxford’s future.
Battery-powered trams
5:26pm Thursday 27th November 2008
Sir – Two years ago you published a letter in which I proposed a small, one-way central ring, including George Street and Cornmarket, for buses and taxis.
Well down hydro list
5:28pm Thursday 27th November 2008
Sir – We are delighted to learn from Nuala Young’s letter (November 13) that the residents of the Osney area are investigating hydro-electric power at their weir and that this has the support of the Green members, and perhaps others, at the city council.
Cost of laboratory?
5:29pm Thursday 27th November 2008
Sir – So the mighty mouse motel has opened, after years of unpleasantness and cost overruns, and it is as ugly as possible (Letters, November 20); and all for what?
Ethics of animal lab
5:29pm Thursday 27th November 2008
Sir – I agree with all of Susan Thomas’s strictures on the aesthetics and positioning of the animal laboratory (Letters, November 20). There is also the question of its cost: surely an important consideration, when we are constantly being told that the University needs more money.
Older people ignored
5:30pm Thursday 27th November 2008
Sir – So Oxford City Council made bad investments in Icelandic banks (Report, November 20) and has a budget shortfall. Yet at the same time city councillors blatantly blame their budget deficit on pensioners using their bus passes!
Unfriendly Britain
5:32pm Thursday 27th November 2008
Sir – You may be aware that from this month the Government begins issuing what it calls, with an obvious nasty spin, ‘ID cards for foreigners’. You may not be aware what this means for Oxford. First affected will be students and those marrying Britons. The plan is that gradually residents from outside Europe will be fingerprinted and have to account for their movements. (Later, so would we all.) This is unlikely to put off refugees and the poor unskilled with nothing to lose. But successful foreigners such as Michael Essien and the overseas students at Oxford’s universities and colleges have a lot of choice where they study or exercise their talents. Some will decide Britain has become too unfriendly.
Keeping it simple
5:32pm Thursday 27th November 2008
Sir – Dealing with household waste can be kept simple. In the system that the Vale of White Horse District Council is negotiating with contractors, there will only be three bins for all household waste. All household waste that can be recycled, including glass, paper, cardboard and most plastics, will be collected from one bin (co-mingled). It will not be necessary for households to sort it; this will be done centrally by contractors.
Support for the forest
5:33pm Thursday 27th November 2008
Sir – On behalf of the Friends of Wychwood, I would like to thank all those shoppers at Waitrose in Witney who were kind enough to support us by voting for our charity to receive a share of the monthly community fund that Waitrose provides for local organisations.
Classic credit bubble
5:34pm Thursday 27th November 2008
Sir – I am sorry to see that Charles Shouler, the county council’s cabinet finance portfolio holder (why such a short and modest title?), regards ‘wise after the event remarks’ from mere mortals about the council’s financial mess as ‘not welcome’ (Councils invested up until collapse, November 20). True, in a perfect world we would know our place, tug our forelocks and refrain from criticising our masters at the council for wasting our money.
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