OXFORD S controversial Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs) are set to get foldable bollards to allow access to emergency services. It comes after an ambulance had problems getting to a patient because of the fixed barriers which were put in place at the beginning of March. South Central Ambulance Service said although the man died, the delay caused by the bollards played no part in the man s death. But now emergency services will be able to cross the barriers with a key as the fire service has asked Oxfordshire County Council to change all bollards to lockable ones. The council is trialling LTNs for six months across Church Cowley, Temple Cowley and Florence Park.
RESIDENTS have fought back in defence of new Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs) in their area, claiming ‘the vast majority of locals’ support the new scheme. New LTNs were implemented by Oxfordshire County Council in Church Cowley, Temple Cowley and Florence Park earlier this month as part of a six-month trial. Some have claimed the scheme caused ‘chaos’, causing issues for emergency services and delivery drivers. But now others have stepped forward in defence of the LTNs, stating that not only do the new measures help reduce traffic pollution in the area, but that they also make the streets quieter and safer.
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But in the Victorian era, there was immense pressure for women to tie the knot.
Those who didn t were described as Spinsters and were the subject of cruel jokes.
But a popular weekly magazine from the 1880s shows that unmarried women were perfectly capable of fighting back.
Comments sent in by single women who had been invited in a competition to explain, Why I am a Spinster showed the acerbic wit of respondents.
Historian Dr Bob Nicholson found the jokes while studying an 1889 edition of Tit- Bits Magazine, which continued to be published until 1984.
Dr Nicholson told MailOnline: I love some of the responses to this competition they turn the stereotype of the Victorian spinster on its head and reveal some of the reasons why some Victorian women might have preferred to remain single.