In reply to Michael Rhymes (Oxford Mail, February 26), I am probably one of many readers who are not fed up with seeing councillors sniping at each other in the letters pages.

Thanks to the Oxford Mail, we have a public and free press, fully independent of political parties.

Facts and figures are printed, saving people going to long, drawn-out council meetings. If one wants to raise a matter, you can sit there for two or three hours, then be allowed only a few minutes to speak.

So you contact your councillors, get them to do it for you, then sit and wait for your Oxford Mail and read the feedback, allowing thousands of other people to do the same.

I know that councillors of Wood Farm read these columns.

They should note that the bendy bars goalposts were taken away by Oxford City Council's parks department at 10.30am on January 21 and they have still not been replaced.

The teenagers who play on Wood Farm sports field would like to see them replaced urgently. Now is the time to allow them to score goals. PETER BONNEY, Nuffield Road, Wood Farm, Headington, Oxford