Pretty as a picture
this doctor was in fact correct. I have been refused testing for Alzheimer’s disease despite the known risks due to longterm consumption of benzodiazepines.
I am now advised that I should attend the Substance Misuse Service to discuss my ongoing disabilities. I find this unacceptable. The harm caused by these prescription drugs is being kept hidden. My medical notes state that I have had chronic fatigue syndrome for three years. This is incorrect.
FIONA FRENCH Hilton Heights, Aberdeen transporting and installing the hardware exceeds any savings from substitution of fossil fuels in electricity generation.
Thus Carolyn Taylor’s plea (16 September) that wind turbine killings of birds and bats can logically be fairly tolerated, given the renewables’ benefits, is unfounded; comparisons with wildlife losses in collisions with power lines, windows and predation by cats are meaningless.
Carolyn Taylor implies that adverse climate change is humanity’s own fault, through our adoption of luxury lifestyles, involving eg motor cars and electricity-powered gadgets which, she infers, we can do without.
So what does she want us all to do, return largely to preindustrial life, having abandoned the technology-based developments of the last century or so?
If so, it would demand policies impossible to implement, with no convincing benefits but certainly bringing a multitude of drawbacks, damaging to life in its sheer impracticalities.
I AND C WARDROP Viewlands Road West, Perth Congratulations to the photographer who caught Dumfries station with its garden looking its best (Picture Gallery, 15 September).
Most Scotrail stations now have volunteers from the local community that attend to baskets, beds and tubs throughout the year. These “station adopters” take part in a scheme that was begun by First Group, and is currently supported by Abellio Scotrail. It owes much of its expansion and success to John Yellowlees, now Scotrail’s honorary rail qmbassador.
Dumfries, along with several other stations in the Southwest, has a team led by horticulturalist Louis Wall – hence, its “showcase” appearance.
The combined efforts are not only to make stations look good but also to enhance the theme of keeping Scotland beautiful. Volunteer gardeners are always welcome.
(DR) I A GLEN Monks Road, Airdrie