IN the Oxford Mail (May 11), the managing director of the Oxford Bus Company, Phil Southall, claims that the proposed rises in bus fares are due in the main to rising costs.

Would Mr Southall like to inform the travelling public just how much his and other bus companies have spent on personalised number plates which have appeared on vast numbers of their vehicles over the last few years?

M J MCCARTHY
Bourlon Wood
Abingdon