Road closure a sign of things to come?
Dear editor As a resident in the Stormontfield area I am shocked to see the road closures and restrictions for the BBC Biggest Weekend event.
These include the total closure of the A93 from the end of Stormontfield Road to Upper Springlands for almost the whole weekend then Scone Brae is to be one way toward Scone only with the return direction way up around Guildton and Wolfhill.
Even our own road to Stormontfield Village is to be closed as far as the racecourse at certain times.
But I have not to worry as the council assure me that disruption will be minimal and they are sorry for any inconvenience.
This will mean a 20 mile round trip for a pint of milk.
I guess the council don’t live in our area then (or our world) and just to add to the joy on the roads it’s a bank holiday weekend too. Very angry resident
Curlewsaren’tthe onlybirdsindecline
Dear editor When I read those headlines in the Perthshire Advertiser on April 27, “Have you all gone stark raven mad”, I was more than surprised to read that a proposed cull of ravens, in an attempt to save dwindling numbers of curlews, is centred almost upon my doorstep in neighbouring Bankfoot.
Yet, I heard or knew nothing about it. Surprise is not the word.
Indeed I have observed there is an absence of curlews nearby in neighbouring Little Glenshee and Tullybeagles Estate, Bankfoot, along with Strathbraan, but sadly the decrease in bird species is not confined to the curlew.
Walking out between fields at home one morning I stood and listened: nothing, just the odd jackdaw.
Yet I remember a time when those fields were alive with peewees, oystercatchers and pied-shanks. And now, like the song by Simon and Garfunkel -The Sound of Silence.
Now curlew numbers are dwindling and it seems the idea is to kill one species in order to save another.
No one seems to know what is affecting our native birds, although theories persist.
I am not surprised to find so many signatures have filled a petition, the brainchild of Alison Lowther of Musselburgh, in an attempt to halt this cull, perhaps it is we, man himself, who has created the environment we live in, both creator and destroyer. Thomas Brown Garry Place Bankfoot