Oliver Etoe, of Saunders Way, West Charleton, writes:

Is it just me or is this newspaper isolating its readership?

In these times of austerity, battling with the internet and social media, surely the service the local newspaper provides in reporting the news should appeal to all..

Why then has the newspaper decided to baulk with years of tradition and remove the sport from the back page?

I can assure the editor that, anyone who is involved in local sport will automatically turn straight to the back page when they pick up their copy.

I can just about understand why, over the years, the back page has been slowly been swamped with adverts – a paper has to survive.

But why then the editor has seen in prudent to print the drivel that now occupies the iconic back page baffles me.

We don't exactly live in a 'news-rich' area, so why we are expected to bypass the incidental and trivial 'nothing-news'incorporated in the Rear View Mirror, to get to what many of want to read about baffles me.

I can't imagine that the readership will be dented by this change in format, but I do think that the newspaper has a duty to keep its readers happy, and not isolate them.

If you must print the rambling opinions of the paper – bury it in the middle.

The paper should be championing local sport, not hiding it.