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Published on Thursday 2 July 2009 09:20

A pile of rubbish, school pupils' compensation claims and the return of Lord Lucan caught our onliners' eyes

Rubbish is set to pile up around the city as binmen work to rule in a row over pay cuts

If they leave enough trash on the streets it will hopefully obscure the roadworks.

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I have a lot of sympathy with the dustbin men. They do a good job. They actually do something productive. What's needed is pay and job cuts in the army of self-justifying pen-pushers on index-linked pensions.

UrbanFox, Edinburgh

Bin men working to rule should actually mean that they do more than normal. Are they now going to clean up any spillages, like they should do? Are they going to empty every bin, instead of just the full ones? Are they going to sweep out the bin stores, like they should be? I doubt it very much. These guys are lazy beggars, and have had it easy for so long. Privatise the whole lot.

Edge Living, out of it

Let's all leave our rubbish outside the council chambers and let them sort it out.

Matthew

I think it is a disgrace that people are slating the binmen. Would you do the job you are doing now for 2-4k less than what you are earning now?

Rorygee, Corstorphine

What hypocrites the unions are. They campaigned for equal pay for women workers and now they've got it they complain about the consequences.

Logie Almond

Maybe the council needs the money to cover all the compensation paid to pupils.

"A child's finger being trapped in a fire door, hockey goals falling on a pupil, and a five-year-old girl being scalded when soup was spilled on her." It's like a violent Benny Hill.

Foo

Normally I'd find the council in the wrong, but why on earth should they have to pay compensation for ripped trousers or lost/stolen mobile phones? If you choose to bring your phone to school and lose it, that's your own fault.

Diana, Edinburgh

Whatever happened to parents and kids taking responsibility for their own actions? The idiots who always need to blame someone else for their accidents should be fined for their stupidity, not rewarded.

Bill MacD

I must have missed out on a fortune then – my daughter's still got the scar on her forehead from where a school door hit her in the face, while I've lost count of the amount of ripped pairs of trousers my son notched up at primary school. Sometimes an accident is just that, an accident.

Blondie

A city author is to pose as Lord Lucan in Trafalgar Square.

If I walk up and down the High Street dressed as Adolf Hitler and call it living art, will the council arty fartys give me a grant?

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Lord Lucan lives on the roof of the flat above The Tempting Tattie and works as a night porter at the Balmoral Hotel. Oftentimes disguised as a badger, he goes unseen across the cities rooftops.

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Well I'm glad we cleared up that little mystery.