I COMMEND the Tory-run Oxfordshire County Council's great efforts to pre-warn everybody about the chaos likely to be faced by one and all following the discovery of a large, unwelcome fat ball which was said to be responsible for “causing major disruption in the Botley, Osney and railway station areas for several weeks”.

However, perhaps they were usurped.

I seem to recall that the Oxford Mail had already printed pictorial evidence that Eric Pickles had in fact been spotted mooching about around there some time earlier.

David Williams, David Walter Close, Oxford