Sir – Every time I drive past one of those yellow signs in West Oxfordshire announcing ‘Civil parking’ I wonder if there’s been an embarrasing (sic) spelling mistake: shouldn’t it be ‘Civic parking?’

Bob Forster, Shipton-under-Wychwood

PS Which editorial genius was it who decided to put a picture in last week’s edition of men jumping off Magdalen Bridge immediately above one of a lady standing in a river clutching a rather large fishing net? Well done; I, for one, enjoyed it!