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Organisers of the event explainedthattheydidn’twant new students to feel unwelcome by the darker attitudes associated with some Christians such as homophobia.

It is not unfair for Christians to be asked to acknowledge and deal with some of their more conservative ideas but an outright ban was wrong.

The organisers’ concern that the freshers’ fair be “a secular space” instead ended up creating an atheist space.

Secularism defends the right of all to free speech as long as no group enjoys any advantaged or privileged platform.

NEIL BARBOUR Edinburgh Secular Society,

Saughtonhall Drive from paying council tax. This announcement comes exactly a year after she announced a Root and Branch Review of Care, aimed at challenging the decades of inequality that care experienced people have faced. It’s an excellent sign that we are not waiting until the end of this Review for action to be taken, and this immediate attempt to fix current inequalities is a great step forward.

When a young person leaves care and moves into independent accommodation they begin to manage their own budget fully for the first time. In this context, council tax debt can be a particularly frightening experience. What can start out for many care leavers as falling slightly behind can very quickly escalate to a court summons and enforcement action being taken.

To exempt care leavers from council tax payments is a very positive step in addressing the very real issues of poverty and debt which blight the lives of far too many of this group of vulnerable young people.

The current Independent Review of Care has the capacity to make a radical change to how people are cared for in Scotland. Whilst exempting care experienced young people from council tax is a great leap forward, we hope we can be bolder still in our ambitions.

Our great hope is that at the conclusion of the Care Review the current inequality that care experienced young people face won’t exist. THE SCOTTISH CHILDREN’S

SERVICES COALITION George Street, Edinburgh Gordon Strachan is right. I keep guinea pigs, and the blues and blue-and-whites are always smaller than the others. Really Nicola! Cheap shot, hardly the PM’S fault she caught a cold. Never heard the old saying ‘mocking’s catching’? - Lorraine Murray She should have brought gobstoppers. - Jim Stenhouse Hilarious. She should be on the stage. - Sandra Davidson Bencze Cheap shot! Symptomatic of her mentality! - Irene Bell