IT’S quite interesting to see how Susan Thomas has been so taken in by the Labour administration spin that she states that a “much larger and more expensive Olympic size pool is to be built in Blackbird Leys to replace the smaller, yet well used one in Temple Cowley”, (Oxford Mail letters, June 16).

Ms Thomas is right about the fact that Temple Cowley is well used, and that the proposed pool will cost us millions more, but, alas, not that the new pool will be any bigger.

It will only be the same size as Temple Cowley Pool. In fact, if the diving pool at Temple Cowley were to be re-instated, it would have more capacity than the proposed pool.

As one of the city councillors who has long opposed this move from a swimming pool which benefits so many residents in my ward and in the whole area around, I am sorry that this administration is refusing to listen to the common sense of so many thousands of its residents who don’t want a colder pool on the edge of the city.

NUALA YOUNG, Tree Lane, Oxford