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detrimental effect. Because Boris has said so and Boris is an honourable man. I mean none of the projected problems have come to pass have they? The pound hasn’t fallen by 16 per cent since Brexit. We haven’t got the slowest growth of the leading economies. Companies haven’t relocated parts of their business to Europe. EU nurses are not deserting the NHS. Prices aren’t increasing. Farmers are having no difficulty hiring the labour to pick their crops. Holiday costs are not rising. So as none of the above is happening, we have nothing to fear.

Jim Taylor The Ross Fountain in Edinburgh’s Princes Street Gardens has been turned off just 19 days after being unveiled following a £1.9m renovation because people playing in it during the recent heatwave have damaged it.

Someone climbed on it. Nothing wrong with the fountain. It was vandalism. Find them and make them pay for damages. Should have some kind of sensor on it so that if someone climbs on it it sends an alarm signal to a monitoring station and police are dispatched. Like an alarm system on your home.

Jacqueline Elston Make them pay for it by having them scrub clean every fountain in Edinburgh – with a toothbrush.

Karsten Moerman

If I paid £2 million for work in my garden and it failed after two weeks I would ask for some money back. The council will probably just put up signs saying do not touch. It’s a fountain, not an object to be put in a glass cabinet. Make it robust for £2m eh?

Paddy Tully

It’s a fountain not a paddling pool or a climbing frame.

Eileen Beesley

Why expect people to play in it? Have some common decency when visiting public landmarks – they are not your personal plaything.

Andrew Pete

Punish the “creatures” who damaged the Ross Fountain – they are vandals, not lovers of artistic works. We have enough protesters who vandalise buildings and cars these days.

Richard Leslie