A survey is needed

TUG WILSON is quite right to point out the error in my suggestion of withholding licence fees. Everyone pays at different times in the year apart from Gold Licence holders, writes Kevin McNiff.

Last weekend, a small group of protesters near Eynsham stopped the traffic on the A40 between Oxford and Burford for around 20 minutes—I was held up there!

A better way

Their protest concerned additional housing in the village, already struggling with no improvements to roads. Now if a blockade of several pinch points were to occur on the canals, with maximum media coverage, maybe this would be a better way of getting boaters’ [!] frustrations in the cross hairs of CaRT’s woefully inadequate and incompetent management?

Fradley Junction, Old Turn and The Mailbox in Brum would do—the last one clearly in view of the BBC WM cameras—a fitting background for the weather presenters!