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Use your sense

6:39pm Wednesday 17th March 2010

WRITE regarding the article about Hayley Townsend, the lady who blamed her sat nav system for sending her the wrong way down a street in London (Oxford Mail, March 4).

Observe Lent

6:40pm Wednesday 17th March 2010

In reply to Alan Bourne’s letter in Tuesday’s Oxford Mail, I, like him, am not a theologian, nor a historian, but I do know enough about Lent and Easter to tell him that what he wrote is not accurate.

Recession rebrand

6:22pm Tuesday 16th March 2010

I was interested to see that Oxford West and Abingdon’s local Conservative Party is trying to re-brand the current downturn as “Labour’s recession” in its current pamphlets in the run-up to the General Election.

Fight plans to get rid of our subway

6:22pm Tuesday 16th March 2010

THE HEADINGTON subway has kept people safe for 40 years and is a secure way for people to cross the road without accidents.

Grounded business

6:23pm Tuesday 16th March 2010

I welcomed Andrew Ffrench’s report into Martin Halstead’s latest failed attempt to get his mini-airline service off the ground (no pun intended).

Use the matrix

6:24pm Tuesday 16th March 2010

ON Friday March 5, a petrol tanker was involved in an accident between J11 and J12 on the M40.

Biblical wrongs

6:24pm Tuesday 16th March 2010

IT is Ralph Leavis’s prerogative to believe all the stories in the Bible, if he chooses to do so (Viewpoints, March 4), whereas I do not, and I find better things to do with my time than trawling through the scriptures to find support for my beliefs.

Responding to Ralph

6:25pm Tuesday 16th March 2010

RALPH Leavis continues his relentless crusade against animal welfare campaigners by quoting various passages from the Bible, including the story that God allegedly drowned all the animals in the world, except two of each kind, because of the wickedness of man (Viewpoints, March 4).

At one with the world

6:26pm Tuesday 16th March 2010

WHY ON earth does Ralph Leavis think that those of us who promote animal welfare do not support victims of the Haiti earthquake?

Big green lies

6:26pm Tuesday 16th March 2010

YOUR story shaming the traders who waste energy by leaving their lights on at night (Monday’s Oxford Mail) expertly exposes the lies of those big businesses which purport to be ‘green’, yet squander the planet’s resources.

First class post nothing of sort

8:00am Tuesday 16th March 2010

ON Thursday, February 25, I posted a first class good luck card to my grandson in Bicester.

UKIP isn't living in real world

8:00am Tuesday 16th March 2010

I REFER to the letter by David Phipps, chairman of Witney UKIP (Oxford Mail Viewpoints, March 9).




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