FOR the second time this week we are happy to see a local authority displaying common sense in these financially-straitened times.

Earlier this week Oxford City Council decided to protect its funding for debt services, at the expense of several arts groups.

Now we see Oxfordshire County Council is using money from a Government fund to revive the stalled £6.6m rebuilding of Bayards Hill Primary School in Barton, Oxford.

The whole project has suffered from bad timing.

It was promised the rebuild in 2006, only for a Sport England objection to the loss of playing fields holding the scheme up long enough for it to fall foul of Government cuts to primary capital programme funding.

But now the county council – the organisation having to find £155m worth of cuts and savings, remember – has succeeded in finding the money by diverting other funding.

Good. The children at Bayards Hill deserve a new school and this rebuild is long overdue.

We will not let up in our demand for a better education system in our city because our children are being let down. Providing them with decent school buildings they can feel proud of is part of giving them that system.