Sir – This major trunk road, and other routes in to Oxford, is a disgraceful mess of accumulated debris these days. Can we please be told through your paper who, in authority, is doing what and when to address this deplorable situation?

We have, as a society, made smoking in public places an offence, similarly using a mobile phone when driving. Plastic shopping bags are increasingly discouraged. In the same way, can we not make the dumping of litter in and around this beautiful city the anti-social, irresponsible, and totally unacceptable behaviour that it is?

Pauline Martin
Osney Island