Children deserve to have very best environment

10:00am Friday 24th May 2013

ELAINE Bennet’s letter How safe are chidren in new expanded schools? (ViewPoints, May 22) draws attention to a letter Jim Leivers (Oxfordshire director for children, education and families) sent to Oxford sex ring victim Girl 3, which echoed a county council press release which asserted that Girl 3 and the other victims had been offered “a wraparound service” by Oxfordshire children services – a claim girl 3 denies.

Long-serving manager

10:00am Friday 24th May 2013

NOW that Tony Pulis has left as manager of football’s Premiership side Stoke City, Oxford’s Chris Wilder is within the top five current longest-serving managers in the four divisions of the English football league.

Badger cull bad science

10:00am Friday 24th May 2013

JULIA Hammett (ViewPoints, May 22) hit the nail on the head in exposing the corrupt nature of this Government’s decision to pander to amoral dairy farmers in giving the go-ahead to the massacre of our badgers, despite the overwhelming scientific consensus that the cull will have little effect on TB in cattle, and could well be counterproductive.

A level playing field

10:00am Friday 24th May 2013

SATURDAY, May 18, was Levellers’ Day. In Burford, a remembrance day for those of Oliver Cromwell’s Puritan army who heroically deigned to dissent against Cromwell’s orders during our civil war.

Taxing times ahead

10:00am Friday 24th May 2013

I READ the profiles of prospective candidates in the recent local elections.

Thanks for a future

10:00am Friday 24th May 2013

I WISH to thank Sainsbury’s, the wonderful planners and contractors, for their building skills, and all our councillors, because at last Bicester will have the facilities that we have waited so long to see.

A Churchill public holiday

10:00am Friday 24th May 2013

MR Ashworth (ViewPoints, April 30), wants to make St George’s Day a public holiday.

Put my dad in the picture

10:00am Friday 24th May 2013

THE Rewind picture headed ‘Green machine’ was a real surprise to me.

Bullfinch revulsion begs questions of authorities

10:00am Thursday 23rd May 2013

COUNCILLOR John Tanner said we should be praising the county council and the police, and not calling for resignations over those convicted in the Bullfinch child sex ring case (Viewpoints, May 20).

Get off gay hobbyhorse

10:00am Thursday 23rd May 2013

I AM getting very angry that Parliament is spending two days on gay marriage.

On the spot

10:00am Thursday 23rd May 2013

FOLLOWING the Bullfinch trial I think that heads should roll in the police, social services and the council now.

No hope on gay marriage

10:00am Thursday 23rd May 2013

DAVID Burrowes, MP for Enfield Southgate, was indeed impressive in speaking with such eloquence and wisdom at the debates regarding Clause 6.






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