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Letters

• A case of sour grapes?

   IT sounds like sour grapes  from Mr Paul Spearman. read more

• We’ve made it worse

   RECENTLY the Taliban executed a young woman for adultery in line with the strict Sharia law in Afghanistan. read more

• Happy memories

   HOW nice it was to read Bernadette Downs’s letter (Oxford Mail, July 10), recalling happy memories of the Excelsior Café in the Cowley Road. read more

• Save Leys park

   ON Saturday, June 23 you ran an article on the Blackbird Leys park and I applaud those responsible for creating a plan to improve the area. read more

• We need cunning?

   SO CID officers in Thames Valley Police are to take exams to be become detectives (Thames View, July 2012). read more

• Judges are letting down the public with jail terms

   CAMBRIDGE has now joined Oxford in the dubious production of Court Judge Gareth Hawkesworth who recently appeared to show a predilection for going soft on paedophiles by releasing a teenager who sexually assaulted a four-year-old. read more

• Give these girls a future

   THIS old headline has reared its ugly head again:  ‘Pregnancy for housing!’ The last time it was during the Tories’ 17-year reign! read more

• Cyclists should obey rules

  l MY enjoyment of the Torch event on Cowley Road was marred by cyclists, travelling the wrong way up the road when it was very clearly closed. read more

• Helping them read

  WE were pleased to see an ARCh reading helper, Helen Russell, featured in the story on Oxfordshire County Council’s Reading Campaign (“We’ll Help Them Read”, Oxford Mail, July 12). read more

• Stop tearing things down

  DURING my 30 years living in Iffley Fields, I have had occasion to call on the city council workers for help many times. read more

• Standards of teaching are seriously below par

  WITH reference to the Oxford Mail article in July 13, on page four, headlined ‘Schools must lead efforts to boost reading’, the headline correctly implies that schools are continuing more than 40 years of failure since very rigorous infant teaching was abandoned in the 1960. read more

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