Dear Editor, The latest diatribe is to sell off Scottish water. The stupidity of that thinking really does not surprise me at all. Lets see what privatisation of water has done in England. Huge wage rises to the directors. The investors profits come first. i.e. Banks, Insurance companies, etc. Profits you can only dream of in Billions of pounds. And now the benifits to the customers. A continual system of drought nearly every year. Bills for water, sky rocketing. Massive leaks of water through unmaintained pipes OOPS !!! customer has to pay more for them to be repaired, not "investors" . And a proposal just coming through is to cut off the water supply to ANYONE who`s bill has not been paid on time ,without going through the court system. I wonder how the executive are going to escape from this one.

Bob Horner, Leicester.

Dear Editor, I recently had to make a number of visits to one of Edinburgh's busiest hospitals for treatment and was most surprised by the parking charges incurred for my visits. I urge all patients and visitors who think along the same lines, boycott the parking areas and either use other transport, if available, or other car parks within walking distance. It is bad enough having to face a regular lengthy journey for treament you are worried about without having to worry about how you can afford to do this.

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Dear Editor, On a recent trip to Scotland I found evidence of a country that is always gripped in traffic congestion most of the day, especially your Forth Road Bridge, it was a nightmare trying to get to the other side at 4.30 in the afternoon (Road works during tourist season?). I did hear, while over in Scotland, that transport departments are looking at an alternative to the bridge, why do you not have any ferries transporting people to and from the Fife side to Midlothian?

Ardent reader, New Zealand

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