HOW lonely Stuart Crawford must be on a Saturday. There he goes, trotting out at the grand market place in Kidlington — constructed at a cost of £265,000 of taxpayers’ money — to sell his wares.

But instead of pitching up in a bustling, thriving marketplace to enjoy the banter with fellow traders he is there by himself.

At least, we suppose, he’s master of all he surveys.

But the fact that Mr Crawford is the sole trader at the repaved Watts Way ‘piazza’ is not to be treated lightly.

The work was finished more than two years ago.

The council says bringing in new traders is ‘aspirational’.

Once again we have a huge amount of public money being spent, yet the delivery is flawed.

Cherwell District Council was recently approaching staff about redundancies.

If it can spend £265,000 of your money and then allow the ridiculous situation that currently exists, how will it handle the forthcoming public sector cuts?