THE EDINBURGH CONVERSATION
ScotRail is named one of most reliable train operators in UK
As things go in Britain, the “most reliable” only means the “least awful”. Train travel these days is incredibly overpriced; just because the actual management of running the service is “nationalised”, doesn’t mean it’s necessarily all that much better – there’s still so much privatisation left within the train operators (e.g. all new post-BR trains themselves actually being privately owned and leased back to the operator for a profit)
James Kindberg
Strikes must be the major problem in England Fiona Harvie
Scotrail has its problems but I think they run things better than some of the English rail operators
Paul Scales
Also much better than a number of international ones, DB in particular!
Norman Mackenzie
Just about fell off my chair after reading that headline, how on earth! Christopher Morrison
There’s the problem: “24 major train companies” Lennard Ramone
Unionists will be hyperventilating at this news James Lawrie
Probably a pretty low bar to beat
John Hewit
Humza will have that in his referendum speech
Gaz Hamilton
Residents protest after living without heating for a year
I appreciate that Living Rent see the tribunal as a last resort and instead tend to go down the actions route, but sometimes all that is needed is a tribunal application. Once the landlord/agent see that this is a route you’re prepared to go down, it’s usually enough. It is correct though that agents will need landlord permission, hence why any application for an enforcement order is against the landlord and not agent
N A Tasha Natasha
I work for another property letting company. We can’t arrange any work in a property (except emergency work) without the landlord’s permission. It’s probably not the agency’s fault
David Funnell
Well the council should start with themselves they fix or repair nothing on their properties
Raymond Dignon
I’m sorry. But would you not just get the heating fixed and send bill to the letting agent CR Ronald
What if they don’t pay it or you can’t afford the outlay for the repairs?
Leith Keahey
You are lawfully allowed to deduct it from the rent you pay under the Repairing Standards (Housing Scotland Act)
Bob Burnett
70s schools
I can still feel the chalk slipping out of your grip and that horrible scratch on the blackboard
Peter Tuffy
No pics of any schools within the schemes and their "temporary huts”, frozen taps and toilets during the winter and no heating. We were a hardy bunch!
Trudie Lawson