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You don't like graveside toys, think one velodrome in Scotland is plenty and don't want a Hallowe'en festival

While you were sympathetic to the plight of those who suffer a stillborn birth, you were all but unanimous in backing the call for fewer mementoes at the burial ground.

Ban toys completely. They get left alone and what doesn't get stolen after one day, is a soggy, bedraggled mess after a few days' exposure. It's completely the wrong sort of memento to put on a gravesite!
Boy Wonder

I cannot help feel for the bereaved but surely toys could be given to children?
john3

I agree wholeheartedly. I have every sympathy for parents who have lost a child, but I feel that these sort of things should be for the living. Give a child a toy who can enjoy it but by all means go and remember your baby there with dignity.
Linmal, Livingston

Where did this tasteless sub-culture develop from? It is bad enough to have poor taste but quite another to force your taste on others. Do they really think that leaving cheap teddy bears and other tat to rot is going to help the grieving process? Best way is for the cemetery to arrange for such rubbish to be given to a charity shop instead of it going near the area. Flowers should also be removed after one week.
FreddieIII, Scotlandia

I say leave it alone. Let people grieve how they want.
The Genuine Mario Antoinette

Bah humbug! has come early this year, with many of you displeased at the prospect of a Hallowe'en festival in the city.

Just what we need in Edinburgh – another street closed to traffic!
AlanW, Edinburgh

Why not have the event on the High Street or Parliament Square? These are already closed to traffic. For the council to even contemplate closing another route in the city at the moment, given the excessive number of roadworks, diversions and closures is just madness.
fresian, edinburgh

One night they're talking about. One single night. For three hours. A community of traders getting together and trying to make one night a little bit different for people. Doing something off their own backs to try and help their businesses. It's not really Armageddon is it?
NotaNumberYet

Chris Hoy is in town for a civic reception and he wants to use the occasion to push for a new velodrome. But has our golden boy tarnished so soon that you remain un-moved by his enthusiasm?

Does Scotland really need 2 velodromes? I think the one in Glasgow will be more than enough and will serve a bigger population anyway.
Normy, Edinburgh

Loads of young cyclists from Edinburgh, use Meadowbank every week. So what are they to do now ? Spend 2 hours every evening travelling to Glasgow?

If it takes them 2 hours to get to Glasgow every evening I don't see much of a future for them in the sport to be honest.
NotaNumberYet

They could cycle there. That would give them an advantage over their West Coast compatriots.
Casey Beer

Exactly, let's just call the M8 an "adventure velodrome" and let the matter lie
NotaNumberYet

Finally, a view on the impending rail chaos . . .

The RMT strikes at the drop of a hat. If Network Rail was to announce that signallers were to receive a 100% pay-rise, a free house, and an annual free holiday in the Bahamas, RMT would call a strike because sun-tan lotion wasn't included.
Skip McClendon