The Flower and Food Festival was a great day out though I expected it to be bigger and better than the year before. This may not have been the case, but it was still a spectacular occasion.
The best attraction was Ainsley Harriott. He was fabulous, the same in real life as you see him on the television and my two-year-old son was in awe.
My mum bought one of his books and took my son over with her to get it signed.
Ainsley was fantastic with him and took the time to speak to him, lifted him up, gave him a wee kiss and posed for a few photographs for our family albums.
Thanks to Ainsley and thanks to Dundee City Council for a smashing day. Everyone involved should be proud. — Mrs McIntyre.
Waiting for accident
I’m sure many at the Dundee Flower and Food Festival had a nice time. But as for many dog walkers and children playing and for nature lovers who enjoy fresh air, yet again Camperdown was filled with cars and vans going along the grass some at high speeds with disregard for the safety of others.
What I saw was frightening. I have written about cars on the grass before, but nothing much has been done and I’m worried there will be a serious accident one day.
As usual we will have to wait until this happens before we country lovers enjoy our safety. — Car Park.
Hypocrisy over parking charges
A Ninewells car park.
I am saddened to read the Labour Party attacks on the SNP’s car parking abolition scheme. Yes, it may not have been perfect with three hospitals being left with charges, but we must ask ourselves why this is the case?
It is because of the Labour Party’s love of PFI that we in Dundee will still have to pay this charge. If the Labour Party were so against these charges, why did they introduce them?
Marlyn Glen MSP claims to be a socialist, can she then tell us that she honestly believes that putting £50m into a private company’s profit books would be better than the Scottish Government investing it in helping the people of Scotland?
The Scottish Government are trying their best to make Scotland a better place, and I am sure that the people of Dundee, and Scotland are intelligent enough to see that. — Hospital User.
Not good enough
It is the job of SNP MSPs Shona Robison and Joe Fitzpatrick to make sure the SNP Government gets rid of car parking charges at Ninewells.
It simply is not good enough for them to look around for excuses and blame others for the SNP Government not scrapping these unfair charges. — Douglas Reader.
Lights misery
After the chaos which still exists at Claypotts lights, Dundee, I was shocked when I used the new Kingsway lights, with traffic back to back between circles both ways and then lanes blocked with overspill at Forfar Road junction.
All that was required was a larger circle like at the entry to Kirkcaldy, which runs smoothly, coupled with a filter lane over Caird Park, joining at the lower traffic lights for most traffic travelling north.
In an age when other EU countries have turned back to circles to speed up traffic, we seemed to have stepped backwards — Road Watch.
Be careful with cash
Rising prices and the credit crunch may have left most of the world tightening their belts, but it appears nothing can stop the Scottish Government handing out our cash willy nilly.
Advice to lobby group The Scottish Islamic Federation states, “There isn’t a template for funding, just set down in a couple of pages what you want to do, why it needs to be done, and how much it will cost. Nothing too elaborate.”
Am I alone in feeling uneasy about the sheer lack of detail demanded by this SNP Government? — Political Watcher.
Dundee rail station
All calls to upgrade Dundee rail station continue to go unanswered. However, I have read there are plans afoot to paint Scotland’s trains blue, with white saltires.
Maybe this is a solution which can be applied to the station.
Perhaps support would be forthcoming if there was a proposal to treat the station façade in the same way as the trains. It would certainly be an improvement on how it looks just now. — Cynical Sam.
Leniency
In reply to Politico, the reason we have a lenient approach to crime is the then justice minister Jim Wallace incorporated the European Convention on Human Rights into Scots Law.
A year later it was brought into the rest of the UK. Politicians of all parties and our courts are over-ruled by the European Court on Human Rights. — Westender, Dundee.
Poppy appeal
Anyone who requires wreaths, sprays or suchlike for Remembrance 2008 contact us by e-mail at poppies.dundee1@tesco.net or telephone 01382 542109. Orders required to be with us by Monday. — Frank Smith, Earl Haig Fund, City of Dundee Appeal.
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