Sir – Whoever is responsible for putting together the Weekend pages seems to have an odd sense of priorities.

This is particularly evident in the February 24 issue. The whole of the front page is given over to an article showcasing Rory Kinnear in a production of Hamlet at Milton Keynes.

Aylesbury and Wycombe are the venues for the Big Ballet featured on the next page. All three of these towns are outside the geographical boundaries of an Oxfordshire newspaper. The Big Ballet will be in Oxford on April 8, so there is plenty of time for a preview of this in later editions.

Squeezed into the bottom three inches of the second page is a preview of a charity opera gala, A Bite At The Opera, marking the 25th anniversary of the Oxford-Leon Twinning Association — an event of greater significance and interest to local people than what is happening in Buckinghamshire. Oxford’s link with Leon has spearheaded a number of much-needed charitable projects in Nicaragua to alleviate the difficulties of everyday living for the poorest people.

The gala evening, for which opera singers gave their services free, was an important event, but it was treated dismissively by relegating it to such a position in the paper.

Please give the Oxford arts scene priority in future. There is plenty going on in the city and in the county to fill the pages of Weekend, without sending your reviewers to far-flung venues outside our borders.

Brian Nobes, Botley