Readers' Best Comments

State of the art and stuck in the garage for such a long time, get it sorted as they are badly needed.

The Real Alfonsa Pedrosa

Sounds like someone messed up buying them in the first place.

Chirpy Council Worker

Tell the manufacturers they are not fit for purpose and get the money back?

simonp

It's the drivers not the weight that is the problem.

"All the brigade's drivers will now have to be retrained before taking them on the road, unless mechanics can find a way of bringing their weight down".

The vehicles are over their trained weight allowance.

JulesF

These same vehicles run at 50t plus in the Norsk countries and have done for many years. It is stated they are too heavy at 22t. UK department of transport allow 26t at the axle configuration of these vehicles.

Paraclete

If the problem is that they're too heavy, is the answer not that the crew should be fast-tracked for HGV licences? Or is that too simple? Especially if that is correct about the weight of the vehicles in Scandinavia.

Curious Yellow

Six community centres are to be closed, saving 120,000, as part of the council's cost-cutting drive

Right Wing SNP/Lib Dem coalition making the cuts the Right Wing Tories would do.. Seems the electorate were conned by the SNP?

Front Street

This will cause more problems closing these centres, its not a great deal of money saved. Pound foolish, penny wise.

The Real Alfonsa Pedrosa

I think the council should look at reducing the top council executives' wage bill and the costs of external consultants BEFORE undoing the good work that is done for the community by people on very low wages. Work which would cause long term harm to the communities if that work was not done. Somewhere down the line of community planning that work has been identify as being needed for the long term benefit of the community.

It is about time that the senior council officials take a look at the actual effects on the community of what cuts they propose rather on cost alone. Time to cut their own salary bill as that is what is unsustainable.

The concerned taxpayer

Support workers have been told to look for and report signs of terrorist activity in people's homes

Sounds good, but they'd better be very careful, be very, very careful, or a bigger problem could arise from the innocent.

The Real Alfonsa Pedrosa

This is most definitely a job for the police and the British (in the loosest of terms) intelligence agencies. Not for council workers or the public. By undertaking these activities we are playing into the potential terrorists' hands through mistrust, paranoia and fear.

Wouldn't you like to know

Let's get this right, council worker sees something suspicious. Something that could indicate plans to build bombs that could kill people in Edinburgh. Option A. Tell the police or option B. Say it's not my job.

For some bizarre reason option B seems to be getting support?

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