HOW good to see the Red Lion called the Red Lion again.

After spells as the Oxford Bakery and Brewhouse, the Fuggle and Firkin and the Goose, the popular pub in Gloucester Street, Oxford, has returned to its old name.

It is perhaps too much to expect national chains to have too much regard for tradition.

But in this case, well done to Mitchell & Butlers for giving us back a bit of our history.