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A pupil injured on a discarded syringe, a vandal attack and the rubbish collection service in chaos again attracted online ire.

A primary pupil was pricked by a syringe found dumped in a school's community garden.

This is what happens when you give junkies free unlimited needles. Stop giving junkies needles and everyone is safer.
Foo

Drug users should be penalised if caught using drugs, especially leaving needles in a place like that! That is just horrible!
elayne

If the parents who claim to have seen the syringes failed to raise the alarm, they should be thoroughly ashamed as they failed in their moral duty to protect their neighbourhood's youngsters from this danger.
Slightly Cynical

Another reason why we should stop all the namby pambying of druggies, and stop handing out methadone and free needles.
Cynicaltalk

Ouch. Harsh. Harsh ...

Harm reduction is for the greater good and the clean needle programme is a great example of that. It is unfortunate that this incident occurred but it makes sense to provide clean needles to try and reduce the HIV infection rate. It's no different to offering free condoms to "sexually active" teenagers.
WGH Worker

Now, here's a crazy idea ... or is it?

Surely the police are capable of carrying out DNA tests on the syringe? There's a pretty good chance the culprit is already on the criminal database anyway. That's probably asking too much – it's easier to let kids pick them up while the offender gets off scot free.
Wull The Champ

A community centre is under siege after vandals smashed 86 windows in one night.

This is disgusting, these vandals should be caught and made to pay every penny of the cost of the damage. If they are under age the parents should have to fork out.
alex.d

We must have the worst police force in the land, if you see a policeman walking it means his car has just broken down. Everyone knows a policeman on the beat is the answer to a lot of these problems but the authorities refuse as they seem to think they know best.
hibbydoug

We don't see the community wardens in Craigmillar, either, Mr Brown, and the police are only interested when you threaten to do their job for them instead of leaving it to be done by magic like they do.
EnEm

Couple of large dogs ... problem solved.
Ed_Izmir

Waste collections are in chaos again ... this time it's waiting for bin lorry parts from Italy to blame.

Most works garages have spares for their transport fleet, but this is the council.
alex paterson

Does anyone know if citizens can claim for a refund for a lack of service? If I paid Sky TV £170pm for a service, and I missed a week's service, I would be looking for money back due to a service being paid for but not being received. Surely it's the same for this?
allknowing

Take your bin bags and dump them outside the council offices, let them deal with their incompetence.
Foo

The bin collection is critical – the one thing you get for your money.
Bottoms Up