Review of the Sunday Newspapers

This morning I was one of the guests on BBC Radio Oxford's Bill Heine programme to review todays' newspapers. The other three guests on the show were: John Lubbock, founder and director of the Orchestra of St. John's, Stephan Venables who walked in the steps of Ernest Shackleton and is giving a talk on this at Oxford Town Hall tomorrow at 7.30pm and Mark Fysh who was formerly the senior branch officer for the County Council's union, Unison.

I chose five stories but only three got a mention because we ran out of time. My top story was entitled "Nimby? Cameron accused after his council halts library closures". This was in The Independent and referred to the County Council's budget meeting earlier this week, where thanks to the Conservatives agreeing with our Lib Dem amendment to give a stay of execution to libraries this year, we now have some breathing space to look at other options. Good to see a local story go national!

We also discussed the U-turn over the forests, equality issues, cycling, salmon being exported to China and other topical items making todays papers. It was an interesting and lively discussion.