Sir — Simon Hunt (Letters, October 10) should not assume that our Lord Mayor 'will' be 'sacrificed' by the city council.

The Standards Board which is to judge her, of which I am a member, has been adjourned until early November, and until that sitting of the board is over, nobody can tell if she is to be found guilty, or exonerated, and her public image given the boost it would then be said to deserve.

Sushila Dhall, Oxford