Runners’ rules

Both myself and my neighbours are very angry indeed that Stirling Council, with its typical and unique incompetence, has given the go-ahead for the Stirling Marathon to close off all our road son Sunday, just so that a herd of so called runner scan monopolise all the main roads around us.

In effect, we shall be the victims of false imprisonment for a whole day, forbidden to leave our houses or see our friends at all or carry on any business. Surely this is illegal, or has the Scottish government changed the law? Moreover, the council’s own carers are being prohibited from attending to their normal sick and disabled patients on that day, and God help us should an ambulance be needed. Two businesses in the village have also had to close on that day, and have been advised to sue the council for lost income and goodwill. We sincerely hope they do.

I myself was once an athlete – in England – but nobody closed roads for our longdistance runners. I cannot believe the council knows what it has signed up to. All around us, yellow signs are springing up telling us to “find alternative routes”.

All too obviously, as usual, they do not know their own territory, or they would know that there are NO alternative routes serving our community. A MAXWELL-IRVING Telford House, Blairlogie