What a penny-pinching, miserable, inhospitable place Oxford has become, thanks to Oxfordshire County Council and parking company Control Plus.

People came from miles around to enjoy themselves and to see Elton John.

They parked very reasonably on grass verges so as not to obstruct the roads and as it was a warm, dry night, there was no damage to the verges.

But the council and Control Plus could not resist rubbing their grubby little hands and sending out a gaggle of traffic wardens to abstract even more money from the hated motorists who dared to bring a car into Oxford.

Steve Chandler, Sandford Lane, Kennington, Oxford