Wardieburn

Very disappointed to learn of the fatal stabbing incident in Wardieburn.

This takes us backward. Less than three years ago the area was rife with gang turf wars as locals fought it out in a series of escalating tit for tat incidents: the weapons escalated in their potential for danger, too...rising from knives to guns pretty damned quickly.

I sincerely hope this is a tragic 'one-off' - we shall wait and see.

Wardieburn is the forgotten area: since the tenants' rejection at the ballot nobody has any idea how to regenerate the area and those plans we had have been quietly buried by the current Administration...no new school now...no new housing...a very late community centre...the worse health and education situation in the city...it is grim.

My family has lived in Wardieburn for generations but the Wardieburn I grew up in is a very different place from now. Then, there were local jobs at the factories and a real sense of community. Now, too many people move in then move out again just as quickly. And the area looks dreadful...several constituents have spoken to me recently to say the area has never looked so bad.

I agree, yet letters and emails to the leading politicans have so far yielded no action...this then, is the Lib/SNP's Brave New World...estates that look like prairies ...it is nothing to be proud of.