| Letters - 30 October 2006 |
| Far too easy for binmen |
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| I READ about binmen complaining over health and safety issues. |
| They have it far too easy nowadays. Thirty years ago they came round to the back door and picked up the metal bins, some half full of ashes, then took the empty bins back.
Nowadays, if the bins are not put out for them they don’t get emptied.
What an easy life they have. — Stanley.
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| Beggars belief |
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| I READ the article about the proposed homeless unit at Dunbar Park, Whitfield, Dundee, with horror and disgust.
I left the estate in April, after 10 years, and am shocked at what is happening to the best bunch of neighbours anyone could hope for.
To action such a change without the prior consent beggars belief.
My message to the decision makers is this — beware you have picked a fight with a tight-knit community who will stand together to thwart your plans.
And the very best of luck to them. — Mrs A. Wright, Fairhurst Walk, Dundee.
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| Misleading guises |
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| THE GOVERNMENT should change the law and make it illegal to issue bogus competitions.
My latest is from a company saying I’ll win £47,600,000 if I send £20 for the despatch of the cheque.
These are prize draws and come in many misleading guises.
The silliest one I’ve received, however, is an award of £6000 (which I ignored as usual).
A follow-up letter explained I had missed the ceremony to receive the money. Bona fide cheques are sent without such preliminary waffle. — J. I. Matthew. |
| Doctors’ oath |
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| IT IS time something was done to eliminate hospital patients going outside to smoke.
To see them in pyjamas and wheeling a drip stand or oxygen is a ludicrous situation.
It is easy to say that some are seriously ill and why deny them a smoke.
On the other hand, if they are so seriously ill, why are they allowed outside and why accelerate their demise?
No doubt some do-gooder will reply saying it is against their human rights not to allow them to smoke.
But by the same token allowing them to smoke is against a doctor’s oath to preserve life. — B. C., Monifieth.
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| Firework smoke |
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| I THINK fireworks should only go on sale a day or two before November 5.
Coming out of my work on October 23 all I could smell was firework smoke.
It takes the fun out of November 5. — Kirkton Worker.
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| Pleasant owners |
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| ON VISITING the Stobswell area of Dundee I was pleased to see a new shop opened there.
Stop ’N’ Shop has a wide variety of goods and groceries. Prices were reasonable and the owners were pleasant. — Happy Shopper.
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| Gymnastics lessons |
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| ARE THERE any private gymnastics lessons to be had in the Dundee or surrounding area? — Mrs Anderson (01382 811665).
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| Scaremongering Union Jack |
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| WHAT JACK McCONNELL and the aptly-initialled Gordon Brown fail to realise is that, as Unionists, they have peddled the lie for 300 years that “the sky would fall” if Scotland ever achieved any measure of self-government.
We did and the apocalypse did not ensue.
Now Scots feel more ready than ever for independence and can see the “freedom dividend” of our oil and natural resources working for us.
Unionists have nothing to offer except the same old scaremongering. — The Watchman. |
| Easy targets |
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| COMMUTERS ON the Dundee to Perth section of the A90 are having to crawl along at 35mph on a road designed for 70mph due to the presence of average speed cameras.
These operate even when no one is working on the flyovers.
People who have never committed a crime in their lives are being victimised for doing 10mph over the limit by the police and their ever-rising numbers of static and mobile speed devices. This can result in people losing their driving licences.
The forces of law and order are picking on easy targets. — J. T. F.
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| Queues at lift |
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| I READ the complaints about Dundee’s Wellgate Centre and fully agree.
The centre is attracting new shops and that is good for business. But what about the shoppers?
The centre removed a lift and replaced it with a smaller one and now we have queues.
There are other lifts for coming and going to the car park. They don’t go down to the bottom level.
There is a ramp, but it is closed at level 1.
The toilets have been replaced, but there are fewer of them and there is no baby changing facility.
Some mothers use the disabled toilet as there is no other option. — Catherine Gillan (scooter user), Wishart Place, Dundee.
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| Tailbacks in car parks |
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| WHY DO drivers have to get a space in a supermarket car park as close to the store as they can?
I have witnessed people causing tailbacks because they wait in line for a space feet from the front door instead of moving on.
They could have quite easily parked not too far away where there are lots of spaces. — Fed-Up Shopper.
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| Next “job” |
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| THE ANSWER given by Messrs Blair and Bush to the growing clamour for our forces to disengage from Iraq is “we will stay and finish the job”.
What “job” do they mean exactly? We were told at the outset of the war that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction and it was necessary to destroy these weapons.
Surprise, surprise, no such weapons existed, so this particular “job” was unnecessary.
The “job” was next presented as a mission to bring democracy to the grateful Iraqi people.
It is clear the coalition has not achieved this objective.
It is a fair bet the next “job” will be to preside over the partition of Iraq into Sunni, Shia and Kurdish autonomous states in order to extradite our forces from this disaster.
Three years on and there are indeed weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. They are the car bomb and suicide bomber. — James Smith, Brownhill Place, Dundee.
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| Lochee lights |
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| I HAVE been reading in the Tele about Christmas plans in and around Dundee’s City Square.
I wonder what plans the council has for Lochee.
Previous efforts to try to brighten up Lochee at the festive season have been pathetic.
Last year, we got six decorated lights in the High Street. — C. A. Walker, Lochee, Dundee.
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| Should be made accountable |
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| SIXTY POLICE are working full- time trying to keep track of dangerous sex offenders.
The people who decided to let them out in the first place should be made accountable. — Edward Bignell, Buttars Road, Dundee.
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