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Published on Saturday 15 November 2008 10:04

There's a lot fury about thieves who stole the poppy collection but even more about the ongoing tram works

Despite a postmaster handing CCTV pictures to the police, the two men who stole a Poppy Appeal box have been found not guilty.

Yet another case of Britain gone mad!

Decent

It certainly looks like it.

If poppies still had a pin in them and they'd pricked themselves in the process of stealing the tins they'd probably have been able to sue the owner and he'd have ended up being put away for six months. The law is definitely one-sided, 90 per cent criminal, 10 per cent law-abiding citizen.

Look on the Bright side

Sick. These two should be forced to watch some of the "documentaries" that have been on over the last week that has shown the "carnage" that happened during the First World War. Why is it these people get away with things time and time again and "normal" citizens don't?

Bob 2

Make the punishment fit the crime: send these sorry excuses for humanity to collect for charity in downtown Baghdad so they can begin to understand what it's all about.

A Friend of Fernando Poo

Disgusting low-lifes. Do any MPs/MSPs/Councillors read these pages? Do you not see what the public think of situations like this – do something about it, that's why you were voted in. are sick of scum like this ruining this country. As for these two, get them out cleaning up beaches or river banks until their wee fingers drop off with the cold. It's heart-breaking that young men are being killed or maimed for life in Iraq/Afghanistan and these two worms stoop to this.

ROXY ROOLS

Well, we should at least thank the postmaster for trying to get justice.

Big congratulations to the postmaster Mr Mohammed Mesbah for pursuing this. Yet again the criminal justice system lets us down.

Paddi

Thanks Paddi. Meanwhile, the latest news with the tram works is that the schedule is being pushed further and further back, costing more and more money.

I've got deja vu.

Decent

Well then, Decent, drop our reporters a line and they'll get the next three years worth of tram stories written up, cause they ain't going away . . .

I'm not anti-tram but more anti-rising-cost with a minimum of three years to go until it's delivered. Cap spending on this and if the forward projections forecast an increase of more than 25 per cent, then stop now.

Farmernot

We're not too far into this to pull the plug. At least we are still using the Scottish Government's money. If we cancel NOW we can still avoid hitting Edinburgh residents with a bottomless demand for additional tax, either direct or to repay loans that the city council authorised itself to take.

Dileas

This tram project for Edinburgh is a big mistake. Maybe it can be stopped now, the roads restored and the contractors compensated. That would be less expensive than continuing. The bus services are perfectly adequate for the city.

Gabriel, edinburgh

Just think. All that money on trams could have been so much better spent on councillors' robes, foreign holidays, free lunches . . .

Spathiphyllum