In your report ‘City Wide Clean Up Expands’ (Oxford Mail, June 17),you say the cleaner Greener Oxford campaign will now include Cowley Road, The Plain and Magdalen Road.

I hope that Merton Street and roads which Students use to celebrate the end of term exams will also be included. Merton Street is left in a disgusting state each year.

I worked at Merton College for a number of years and had to battle with flour, baked beans, streamers, balloons, drink cans and bottles.

Why is it students can get away with drinking in the streets yet an ordinary citizen can’t?

I went down Merton Street on June 16. Police were in attendance. Students were drinking alcohol, champagne, etc, and throwing baked beans, streamers, flour and so on.

Was anyone given an on-the-spot fine for littering? Are the students classed as too ‘elite’?

I agree with Elizabeth Mills, of Divinity Road Residents’ Association. The clean-up needs to happen again when the students are back in Oxford.

Strange how a lot of these ‘clean-ups’ seem to take place when the students are not in residence.

GORDON SHORTER, East Field Close, Headington