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what I faced, with charges which can only be described as disgraceful. For somewhere between two and a half to three hours I was charged £5.10. I gather that for a full day, the charge is more than £9. For a Sunday that level is abominable.

I always believed that my native Fife had the most abject elected representatives but Dundee are quite simply in a different class.

Alan Crombie. Almond Way, Glenrothes. help the small shop owners who already have a hard time competing with the internet. Why can’t the council see that the following will occur if some kind of meeting isn’t sorted out?

Takings will drop, shops will start to close and workers will become unemployed and start to claim benefits. Landlords will have no income – you can’t charge rates on empty shops – so they will then go bankrupt and claim benefits.

Customers will not come back because they have started to use the internet. The town will lose its commercial worth, property prices will drop and unemployment will increase, as will the crime rate.

Small towns will become ghost towns, with no income and property standing empty for years, which will lead to a drop in tourism

If this isn’t nipped in the bud we stand to lose more than just jobs.

There must be a middle ground – a compromise where the shopkeepers work with the council to make towns better. As it stands no one has visited the shops, talked to the

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