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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment

When football matters more than theatre

Jim Ratcliffe Oldham Coliseum Manchester United Oldham
The Oldham Coliseum has said it will be forced to close at the end of March after losing its Arts Council England funding.
The Oldham Coliseum has said it will be forced to close at the end of March after losing its Arts Council England funding. Photograph: Steve Bentley/Alamy

How saddening to see that Oldham-born Sir Jim Ratcliffe seems able to find £5bn or so to buy Manchester United and release it from debt (Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s Manchester United bid would not put debt on club, 16 February), but neither he nor others can find £1.8m to save Oldham Coliseum, in recognition of its arguably wider cultural value.
John Bailey
St Albans, Hertfordshire

• As a former boarding school pupil, I share Adrian Chiles’s toilet dread (Decades on, I am still traumatised by my visit to the school toilets, 15 February). I must add the constipation-inducing “How long are you gonna be in there?” rattle of the door handle to his list of horrors.
Richard Crosher
Sheffield

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