| Letters - 24 January 2005 |
| Dreading spring |
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| IS DUNDEE City Council legally responsible for the removal of, or finding a solution to, the problem of crows colonising Dundee? |
| My problem is that for the past few years I have not been able to open my bedroom window during the spring and summer months because the crows start their cawing from 4.30 every morning.
The situation is getting worse every year with more crows and their young appearing.
I have been in touch with the environmental health, parks and cemeteries, and vermin control departments.
All deny responsibility, and considering I live in the heart of Dundee’s west end and pay the second highest council tax in the UK, I find this most regrettable.
As the trees belong to the council, I feel it is their duty to allow my family and me to enjoy a full good night’s sleep for the whole year and not dread the coming of spring and four or five months of noisy hell. — Westender, Dundee.
[A spokeswoman for the contract services department at the council said, “All birds are protected by law and cannot be harmed unless they are a danger to the public.
“There is no easy solution to this. Removing the nests is possible but come the spring, the birds will build them again.
“If the letter writer would like to get in touch with the council’s forestry officer he can discuss the matter with him.”]
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| Relying on jobs in Dundee |
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| I AM at a loss to understand the negativity unleashed by letter writer Born and Bred.
He or she claims that “incomers contribute little or nothing to the Monifieth economy”.
This flies in the face of reason. Incomers, after all, pay council tax and/or rent.
Also, it is thanks to jobs in Dundee that they can do this.
The people of Monifieth should recognise their reliance on the Dundee jobs market.
Without them Monifieth would be even more of a one-horse town than it is at the moment. — Dundonian.
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| Wheel-chair too wide |
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| I AM disabled and have a ramp at my front door for a wheelchair.
But I have no chair as the wheelchair people in Ninewells Hospital gave me one that was too wide for the doors at my house.
After months of waiting they sent a man with another chair.
It’s still too wide and wouldn’t go from living room to bedroom. The man took both chairs away.
Then I get a letter saying I rejected the two chairs and now will be put on the list for another powered chair.
I received my first chair in 1999 and never used it as I told the hospital it was no good.
Also, the ramp is no good. There is a step of three inches from the hall up to the ramp and I wasn’t able to get a chair I borrowed up on to it.
The man who did the ramp says he can’t do any more. He says I need another door. — R. Archibald, Happyhillock Road, Dundee.
[A Dundee City Council housing department spokeswoman said, “The matter of resolving Mr Archibald’s ramp/door is in hand and we will be discussing this with him as soon as possible.”]
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| Star quality |
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Ena Findlay
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| I THANK customers and colleagues for voting me the Shining Star of Asda 2004. It came as quite a surprise to be the winner of this award. This is the best thing that has ever happened to me in a long time.
As long as the customers are satisfied and keep coming back to Asda, Kirkton, Dundee, then I know I have done what I set out to do and that’s customer satisfaction. — Ena Findlay, Fleming Gardens East, Dundee. |
| LP’s car on zig-zags |
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| ON TUESDAY, January 18, at dinnertime, there was a car parked on the yellow zig-zag lines at Downfield Primary School gate in Dundee.
Nothing unusual as there are always selfish drivers who park there.
Maybe the Lord Provost’s driver doesn’t think the rule about keeping off these lines applies to him or her.
I’m sure whoever was visiting the school would have managed to walk a few extra steps, rather than being a hazard to children. — Anon.
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| Rise and rise |
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| WITHOUT ANY evidence, Sinn Fein are accused of raiding the Northern Bank in Central Belfast. Before this they were accused of a forced entry into Castlereagh, East Belfast, the Northern Ireland police service’s most burglar-proofed fortress.
It’s now accepted this phoney, put-up raid, was down to Crown Forces, to demoralise Sinn Fein. During October, 2002, the same PSNI, formerly RUC, searched Sinn Fein's offices in Stormont. They found nothing, but this allowed Unionists to walk out of the assembly.
Politicians north and south of the border fear what is now known as the rise and rise of Sinn Fein, as will yet again be demonstrated when local council elections and the expected Westminster General Election are held on May 5. — Friends of Sinn Fein.
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| Should be warning |
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| WELL SAID Councillor Ian Borthwick, a man who always tells it like it is.
There is a Labour/Tory council running Dundee.
Both these parties should come with a health warning as neither of them does what it says on the tin. — David Blake, Ballindean Road, Dundee.
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| What a laugh |
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| I THANK the Evening Telegraph letter writers of January 18 for the amusement they gave me.
Three of the letters made good, valid points, the rest had me wiping tears of mirth from my eyes.
In these desperate, depressing times, we need all the encouragement we can to smile. — J. S.
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