WE are living in a time of high unemployment, cuts in services and poor economy.

It is heart-warming to read of ‘Ma’ Smith providing meals for homeless people in Oxford (last Friday’s Oxford Mail).

I feel saddened to read the city council has stopped funding.

It reveals a rather Scrooge-like, defeatist and mean attitude, especially when we read in the Oxford Mail there is money in the coffers for local charities.

PAMELA TREADWELL Dodgson Road Cowley Oxford