COUNTY council leader Keith Mitchell has repeatedly asked for cost-saving ideas.

If he only wrote to the Oxford Mail on alternate days, this would free up fifty per cent of his time to deal with matters for which he is well paid, not to mention expenses.

And if councillors Mitchell and Jean Fooks could patch things up between them, this would create more space for readers’ letters and we would not have to endure any more of their playground squabbles.

Christopher Brogden, Mill Road, Abingdon