Tax U-turn

I have a feeling they will rue giving up the secondary runway in years to come.

Alan Wallace

Jobs doing what? The city and surrounding areas are littered with empty offices and retail units. Traffic is bad enough in that area too. The Gyle and Gogar is a nightmare so hopefully they have all that covered.

Andy Brown

When the new St James opens, Princes Street and George Street will be awash with ‘to let’ signs. How will this help?

Richard Wasp The Edinburgh Triangle – located from the Gyle Centre, Gogar Roundabout and Edinburgh Airport. The said “Triangle” is where thousands of motorists have mysteriously vanished never to been seen again.

Phil Mccann For a capital city the road to the airport is a disgrace. Any new housing or developments have to have new roads built sometimes even before the structures are built. Have they some kind of blind spot here when it comes to roads?

Anne-marie Fisher

Thanks to the Greens, a Chinese airline has already stated they will cancel the only direct flights from Edinburgh to China, so tourists have been lost already. There has to be a balance between the environment and the economy.

Les Duff I fly a lot, I would have liked cheaper flights but I’m minded of the Greek proverb: “A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.” We can’t be in climate change denial any longer. We owe that to future generations.

Alistair Hunter It would be good if the airlines showed as much concern for climate change as they do for their own profits.

Euan Purchase

Our kids’ future is important and in the light of climate change it makes sense to take this reasonable decision.

Mairi Mackinnon

They only just clocked this climate stuff in the last two weeks? It’s jump on the bandwagon nonsense.

Stewart Kirkwood

Any proof this will reduce carbon emissions? The tourism industry is already the highest stealth-taxed.

John Cox

They will chase any viable business or industry out of This is not the same system we had as kids 40 or 50 years ago, when the bottles were truly recycled – placed back in the crates they came in and taken back to the manufacturer and refilled. It sounds like a variation on the current recycling scheme, but with the deposit encouraging people not to throw bottles in the general waste, and changing the collection points/method of collection. The in-store collection/ refund machines are going to have to be huge, or else emptied every day or so.

Susan Briscoe This system is called Pfand in Germany (deposit). When you buy a bottle of anything, part of the price is refundable. You gather the empty bottles and return them on your next trip to the supermarket. You put them into the machine and get a receipt with a barcode that you give to the cashier and that gets discounted from the total. It really does help recycling in a convenient way.

Eva Brunet

So you add 20p to the price then get it back when the can or bottles returned. Talk about reinventing the wheel.

Graham Kinnear

We are going full circle. We used to get deposits on glass bottles, all fruit and veg was loose and we didn’t have as much packaging. Next we will be ditching the internet!

Donna Read

If someone brings bottles up from England do they get 20p as well? Would you need/get some sort of proof of purchase to show when returning the bottles?

Lisa Gribbin