WHAT a good idea to waste (spend) £160m on digging a drainage channel around west Oxford to tackle the flooding. But where will the water then go?
And will it just move the flooding from one area of Oxfordshire to another? I would think for £160m you could dredge every river and clear every ditch in the county and, by doing so, water could flow and prevent our regular local flooding problems.
Boris Johnson
only problem would be that others further downstream would have the flooding problems, but so what, London has plenty of money to waste and good old Boris should be able to deal with such a small problem. It would just be water under the bridge to him. Also, if the Houses of Parliament were to get flooded it would do us all a favour.
KEITH BROOKS
Gateley
Horspath
Oxford
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