FOLLOWING last Saturday’s events, I would suggest there is a very simple and cheap method to stop these idiots jumping off Magdalen Bridge every May Morning – without the need for a regiment of police and stewards in attendance, or expensive barriers.

Place in the water, each side of the bridge, a flotilla of punts six deep from bank to bank.

That will stop ‘em. I’m surprised no one has thought of it before.

The health and safety officers may object to it being too dangerous, but so is jumping into a few feet of water from a great height – and it would certainly act as a deterrent.

Derek Honey, Queen Emma’s Dyke, Witney