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withdrawn books etc, which used to be for sale and the money put towards new purchases. The money was accounted for and receipted. Then in comes one of the library “bosses” and says “You cannot have that.”

Aberdeenshire Whenever my Italian friends visit with me to Scotland they marvel at the library services – in my case at Dunfermline .

Garrick Maguire The underlying problem appears to me to be that any organisation that has public funding is going to lack enterprise without some form of external entrepreneurial leadership processes in place. Come in your average council. Come in the SG. They receive and waste money like water. Oh, and libraries are an essential part of every community.

David There are cuts everywhere. They have even sold public toilets! It is a shame that learning isn’t put before useless vanity projects.

Listen to me Sadly, outside the cities few libraries are used for learning nowadays. The factual books in my library are very dated, they no longer stock newspapers (although you can read these from home online) and the fictional stock seems to be comprised of authors nobody has heard of.

Mackays Abacus

Despite all the taxpayer cash poured into Prestwick to keep Sturgeon’s vanity project alive, it looks like the end is near. Common sense strikes at last.

Sandy Stewart The strategic value of Prestwick as a national asset to Scotland and the UK has been seriously underplayed.

Disc Less Prestwick has never been in a location to attract passenger traffic. Good spot for rendition flights where the passengers don’t get off. Even as a freight terminal is questionable. Too much competition in more attractive locations. Probably destined to be housing estate.

John Wastle If you look at a trans-atlantic flight map many routes to the US and Canada pass close to Prestwick en route to Heathrow. Allied to its long runway and relatively friendly weather, fog and snow are rare, it makes an obvious divert airport.

Aristotle