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Hundreds of parents have signed a petition against the removal of free bus travel to school for pupils. From now on pupils have to live three, rather than two, miles away to qualify.

I don't really understand why we are paying any child's travel expenses. Why attend a school more than three miles away in the first place? We are not in the Hebrides, here! If parents want their children to go to a certain school in preference to the local one, surely they ought to pay any additional costs they incur?

Spathiphyllum

How is walking 3 miles such a big deal? At least they'll walk off all the pies and fries they get fed at school, and it'll only take 45mins at a stroll. And if people think the parks aren't safe, don't allow them to walk through there.

Matchstickwarrior

If you can't afford to send your kids to school, don't have any! If they can't walk to the school you chose, then walk to the nearest one.

Dragonlord

One day the kids might be able to take a tram. Not yet though, as tram bosses prepare for crunch talks with finance secretary John Swinney over the future of the embattled project. Should they be handed more hard-earned cash from Scotland's voters?

Let us live in hope that the promise of "not a penny more" is kept from the SNP government and we can then perhaps see the last of this fiasco by the immediate cancellation of the whole of this farcical project and its mismanagement and get Edinburgh back to normal once again.

Auld Reeky

The tram project is DEAD. "Not a penny more." Hope John Swinney stands by his guns, each of the new trams is 2 million each and with 26 of them, sell them and use the money to end this failure NOW.

Thinner Bob 79

A public project with no accountability or transparency. If TIE had been open from the start they may have had a case. This is badly managed with no public accountability, therefore hoist by their own petard.

abner doubleday

If Swinney sticks to what he's said the council will continue to play for time. It's expected that Labour will be returned to Holyrood next year, they support the tram project and will meet the overspend from the Scottish Government budget, much to the relief of Edinburgh council tax-payers.

regentlad

In happier news, staff at a Bethany Christian Trust shop were stunned to get a generous donation of books and bears from former Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

I wonder if the newly-wed couple presently "sharing" the Premiership in Westminster will be as generous on their divorce?

Devotee to Aesir and Vanir

I think anybody who buys Gordon Brown's old stuff will get ten years' bad luck.

Lang Toun Lass

Fair enough if you didn't like the man, but he's made a generous donation to a charity he has been long fond of. The least you could do is leave your gibbering out of it.

Duncan in Edinburgh

Is this Gordon throwing the toys out the pram since he got the boot?

Daft Old Git