Clark Cross

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Edinburgh North and Leith Labour MP Tracy Gilbert was adopted from a Church of Scotland Mother and Baby Home

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Readers' Letters: Trump visit forces Swinney to engage in grown-up politics

Shona Robison wanted to remove the two-child benefit cap in Scotland

Scotsman Letters: People who choose to have large families should pay their way

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Readers' letters: Trial separation offers hope for common ground

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Readers' Letters: Are constituents getting good value from Sturgeon?

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Scotsman Letters: Mitigate climate effects rather than obsess over net zero

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Comparisons between the economic positions of Scotland and Ireland had reader thinking of Irish sitcom Father Ted (Picture: Channel 4)

Readers' Letters: It's wrong to claim Scotland keeps rest of UK afloat

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Readers' Letters: Exclusions are not the answer to classroom violence

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Readers' Letters: Wind farms obsession killing world’s wildlife

Different young people mature at different stages in their lives

Authoritative decision needed on the age of maturity and responsibility

Renewable energy is at the forefront of the Scottish Government's efforts to reduce carbon emissions. (Photo: Christof Stache/Getty Images)

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Dominic Raab would take over as PM if Boris Johnson could no longer continue in office

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Many families could be forced to choose between 'eating or heating', says reader Clark Cross. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

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Is the Prime Minister being straight with British voters, wonder readers (Picture: Phil Noble/PA)

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Council services like refuse collection are critical to the health and well-being of communities.

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Scotland on Sunday letters: Labour need to win friends and influence people

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Readers' Letters: Please don’t politicise China’s friendly pandas

Anglers are angry about the actitivies of poachers working on an industrial scale in Scotland's rivers

Readers' Letters

Summer jobs such as waiting tables are available if people are prepared to look for them, says a reader

Why don’t people want holiday jobs any more? - Readers' Letters

Scottish Greens co-leader Patrick Harvie is a power behind SNP throne, reckons reader (Picture: John Devlin)

Readers' Letters: Proportional representation has been bad for Scotland

A climate change activist gets her message across during a protest in London

Climate change deniers are peddling dangerous falsehoods - Readers' Letters

The ballot box is the only way to get rid of Nicola Sturgeon's government, says reader

Readers' Letters: There’s only one way to get new Government

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Readers Letters: COP26 can't be just talking shop

Litter clean-up costs for local councils are horrendous. Picture: John Devlin

Clark Cross: Forget the carrot, it's time to use the big stick on litter louts

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Clark Cross: The Paris Accord is dead in the water thanks to Trump

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Rural broadband

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Drone strikes

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Energy mess

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Carbon dioxide

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Green ‘zealots’

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Gun licensing

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Migrant analysis

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Refugees’ plight

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Desperate migrants are human beings

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Container deposit

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Oh rubbish
Clark Cross (Letters, 19 May) is right. Edinburgh is comprehensively provided with public and private rubbish and recycling bins.

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Wind waste

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A cycle of law

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Gas will remain

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Fracking works

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Gas and hot air?

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Behind bars

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Weather guesses

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Staged outrage

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Chaos theory

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Climate chaos

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Unfair wind rules

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Hail to shale as the way forward

Counting cost of wind power

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Hard as nails

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