IN reply to Paul Shearman (ViewPoints, July 12) and the Olympic torch. Why should the torch not have been paraded through Blackbird Leys?

Does he think it was to appease the area’s residents ?

A bit of snobbery, methinks.

He writes: “We don’t all complain”, but what are you doing, if not complaining?

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