Baffling news ruins breakfast

Sir, – The Courier that drops through my letterbox every morning should come with a health warning.

It is only after reading some of your reports that my blood pressure goes through the roof.

For some time now we have been fed on a diet of financial cuts to this, that and the other affecting all of us.

Some time ago you reported that the head of Fife Council revealed the possibility that an unbelievable number of employees would likely lose their jobs because the council had to make savings of some £90 million.

I choked on my coffee when I read further to find that the council was to be congratulated on starting the final phase of tarting up Kirkcaldy High Street at a cost of £4 million.

Then there was the morning when my flakes went all over the place when I read that a council leisure centre car park would close for a week for resurfacing work – the day after I almost ran off the road after hitting a pothole on the main road from St Andrews.

After reading this I felt I would have to go and lie down , and then I noticed your report that the powers that be had announced that dog poo bags were to be issued free of charge in Fife’s flower and maintenance deprived parks.

No doubt this will require dispensing machines, someone to maintain them, fill and keep them topped up as well as the cost of the bags.

It was noted there was no mention of the cost.

You just couldn’t make it up –talk about priorities.

A well-meaning friend says that for the good of my health I should stick to the sports pages, but then again he isn’t a United supporter.

Fred Barbour. Millgate,

Cupar.