30/09/2014 00:00
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Scottish referendum
Dear Sir,
Further to recent letters published on this subject, last time I checked The Queen was Queen of the UK and Scotland is still in the UK, so I really don’t see where your reader got his history lesson from.
Also, the only reason Scotland can offer  free personal care to the elderly, free prescriptions, free university education etc etc is because of the subsidy from the rest of the UK .
The utopia offered by the lies perpetrated by the SNP preyed on the most  vulnerable in our society and fortunately was seen for what it was.
Your Majorcan resident expat really should consider the reality of life in the UK before commenting and I do hope is not of an age where he can claim his heating allowance since he really does not need that in Majorca but it is paid on the back of UK taxpayers (again).

Margaret Phillips (frequent visitor to Majorca but currently living in Scotland  proud “No”
voter


Dear Sir,
This Sunday morning at 6 a.m. (not returning from the Oktoberfest at the bottom of my street but after a good night’s sleep) I popped out to retrieve my Daily B from my mail box just as 4 of those compact street cleaning trucks drove past coming on duty from the EMAYA compound at the top of my street.
Let me run that past you again - Sunday - 6 a.m. - street cleaning – starting work.
Fly Tipping is not limited to the Tramuntana (Friday’s Daily B) but is island wide. It is both lazy and stupid. Lazy because just like flicking a cigarette butt from a car it does not go away – someone will eventually have to clean it up – perhaps one of this morning’s mechanised trucks.
Stupid because it is unnecessary. We have the best (and cheapest?) rubbish collection service I have experienced.
The streets have individual containers for different types of rubbish including garden waste. The giant trucks don’t just empty them every day except Christmas but to avoid traffic jams and reduce bad smells do it at night and taking a leaf out of Lonnie Donegan’s “My Old Man’s a Dustman” are good tempered enough to occasionally allow merry beer fest tourists to “Jump up on the back”!
Whereas in much of the UK large items like furniture, washing machines etc are charged for here a single phone call will have it and up to two more articles removed within 48 hours – free – well not completely as there are rates to pay.  
Mike Lillico
Playa de Palma