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happily pay a charge of some kind. The list of freebies in Scotland is endless.

It is about time we all woke up and realised that nothing is free.

Don’t sell the art because once the proceeds are spent they are spent and we will have nothing to show for it. like to express my concern, and that of many others, at the news that NHS Tayside is to cancel all but emergency procedures for a threeweek period over Christmas.

While I have no doubt that the reason given, to prepare for the usual increase of emergency procedures, is correct, I think it is a little bit disingenuous for NHS Tayside to give this as the only reason.

The fact is that staff and money shortages are also key factors.

They reckon that the £450 per hour for each theatre could be saved.

Of course staff still have to be paid so it doesn’t really make that much sense.

This suspension is a symptom of the ill health of NHS Tayside.

It appears that it is the NHS management and structures which are in need of radical and urgent surgery.

For the sake of the people of Dundee, Angus, Perthshire and north-east Fife, can someone please diagnose and operate?

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While I have no doubt that the reason given, to prepare for the usual increase of emergency procedures, is correct,

I think it is a little bit disingenuous for NHS Tayside to give this as the only reason

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The Scottish football team’s place in the Fifa world rankings.

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The number of people officially classed as being in financial difficulty.