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Private firms have been spotted stealing precious grit from street bins

Was back for a fortnight over Christmas and was embarrassed at how few residents now bother to clear their own paths and surrounding pavements. Civic duty is a two-way street – currently blocked!

Tickety Boo, Edinburgh

If you noticed, all of the city centre was gritted, including pavements (in some cases four or five times) when the tourists were in town. They pay nothing towards the cost of gritting, I pay a small fortune in council tax, don't I deserve the same service?

Rugal

The reason no-one cleans outside their houses any more is because if you do and someone falls over then you are legally liable and can be sued. If you leave it all alone and they slip then it's their own fault.

James Collins

The Lib Dems and the SNP are a disgrace. It is nearly three weeks since the snow started to fall, and the council has still to grit the side streets and pavements. I remember the winters of 1947 and 1962, which were very bad, yet the council still managed to have ALL roads and pavements gritted within hours. The bin men and road sweepers, in those days, were ORDERED to get out and manually grit the streets.

theBestTony1nGorgie

Are the grit bins not there for people to use to clear the surrounding streets?

digestive biscuits V

Global warming my a@*%

Rob Hadnum

Snow more, ta. Meanwhile, the city council's "string of pearls" notion is set to bring an easyHotel and Primark to Princes Street. Some would string the council up . . .

Just what we need!! Primark and easyHotel – cheap brands for a street that is supposed to have the best that Edinburgh/Scotland has to offer. We may as well not redevelop it if they are to move in!!

Angus Mcdonald, Edinburgh

Primark would be far more suited for one of the shopping malls than in Princes Street. It's hardly going to bring Princes Street back to the halcyon days of R.W. Forsyth or Forsyths of Edinburgh, when they and other high-class shops graced the Street.

The Ayrshire Bard,

The bright orange banner should increase the attractiveness of Princes Street. Not.

The Rubik Cube

So much for orange. Red is the colour Oscar the cat needs to avoid, after rubber bands dropped by postmen nearly killed him

Poor Oscar, these bands are annoying. I have caught Iggy with one in his mouth. Luckily I managed to get it out before he swallowed

Caramel wafer

My street is littered with red rubber bands. As are the surrounding streets. The postman could not give a monkey's about recycling them. He just drops them as he feels. This is a real issue which the Royal Mail are washing their hands of.

Bobby Fabulous

When I was young the posties used to be pestered by kids for elastic bands to make massive elastic band balls. These could be up to a foot across and shake the foundations of a house when they bounced, and be launched on a mile-long path of death and destruction if lobbed along a Tarmac road. Nowadays the postie would probably get put on some sort of register if they talked to a kid.

Noodle Doodle