Sir – It comes to something when a headteacher and 24 of her pupils find the need to go to Downing Street to beg Prime Minister David Cameron to help get something done to their school.

I refer to Rose Hill primary school where the pupils had to put up with cold conditions last winter due to poor insulation of the classrooms and an inadequate heating system unable to cope with the poor weather conditions. The money available will only improve one sixth of the classrooms.

How is it that the county can finance the traffic lights at both the Wolvercote and Cutteslowe roundabouts at a cost of £9 million, which is a complete waste, yet it cannot find the money to spend on something more important like Rose Hill school.

Also, coming back from the Cotswolds recently where the A40 from Burford meets the start of the Witney dual carriageway at the roundabout, the grass on the, (for want of a better word) peninsulas between the carriageways has grown so tall that one cannot see any vehicles coming from the right without gingerly edging out.

I daresay there are other places that need to have the grass cut, even if the cutbacks, pardon the pun, prevent the county from cutting the grass verges along the carriageways. One can envisage accidents waiting to happen if the county fails to trim the grass at junctions and roundabouts.

Michael Clarke
Old Marston