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Enforce 20mph limits

6:50am Thursday 18th March 2010

Sir – Your 20mph speed survey (Report, March 4) came to an odd conclusion. Despite finding that more drivers are obeying the law, it starts, “Driving experts questioned the need for Oxford’s 20mph limits after it emerged motorists are still ignoring the restrictions.”

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Preventable abuse

6:50am Thursday 18th March 2010

Sir – I was deeply saddened to read PJ Cresswell’s letter about school bullying in Oxford (March 11). As a student at two of Oxford’s schools about 20 years ago I experienced and also witnessed some horrendous bullying.

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Urgent action needed

6:50am Thursday 18th March 2010

Sir – Councillor Louise Chapman must be very naive to believe that . . . ‘If (young people) appear to be under the influence of alcohol, then they should be banned from the centre.’ This is the perfect pantomime scenario: You’re drunk!’ Oh no I’m not’. Oh yes you are!’ The whole point of breathalysing is that an objective measure is taken of the state of the young person; if s/he is over the known limit, s/he is not allowed in.

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Fragile area of land

6:50am Thursday 18th March 2010

Sir – Last week’s headline and editorial highlighted the complex planning issues which face the site at Water Eaton where Chiltern Railways hope to build a major new Parkway station to serve Oxford.

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Britain can break it

6:50am Thursday 18th March 2010

Sir – As a pendant to the account of the formal opening of the New Bodleian Library by King George VI, (Feature, March 4) my father, who became Bodley’s librarian in 1948, recorded in his memoirs that after the key broke “the situation was only saved by the Bedel of Arts whose normal duties are confined to carrying the University Mace before the vice chancellor in procession.

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Plague of coaches

6:50am Thursday 18th March 2010

Sir – A plague of monster foreign-registered coaches has descended on Iffley Turn, in the evident belief that this is the city’s free coach park.

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Register to vote

6:50am Thursday 18th March 2010

Sir – According to the Electoral Commission, 3.5 million people in the UK are entitled, but not registered, to vote.

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Concerns surface

7:00am Thursday 18th March 2010

Sir – While Janet Beer was posing against the neatly manicured lawns of Headington Hill Hall and extolling the benefits which Brookes University brings to Oxford (Report, March 4), Brookes’s other contributions to the community were surfacing below.

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Soundest investment

7:00am Thursday 18th March 2010

Sir – I write to second Alan Alcock’s question “Do we need more shops?” (Letters, February 18). I hope that the Crown Estate will look at the development of the Westgate area and see it in the context of a city centre already blighted by boarded-up shops which no one can afford to rent.

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Brilliant service

7:00am Thursday 18th March 2010

Sir – I have read with interest letters published in The Oxford Times recently regarding transport to the major airports from Witney being very difficult.

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