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[islaydarkblue]

You don't 'HAVE TO' give your poor, long suffering wife a lift to Gallagher Retail Park, that's what's called a choice i.e. you choose to give the poor woman a lift because the truth is that there are bus stops nearby.

There are two bus stop within a five minute walk of Gallacher retail park, one at Wishart Centre and one on Seagate across from the bus station.

If I was her I'd choose to get away from you by taking a bus to the Wishart Centre stop, or alternatively if her bus doesn't go that way a bus into town and a 5 or 5A back down Seagate to the bus station, then walking the short distance to M&S. The short respite from you would be bliss since I can only imagine the drive from your house to, well anywhere, with you would verge on being a total nightmare.

You'd then be able to say you're doing your bit for the environment and to reduce the supposedly high levels of pollution in Dundee City Centre by halving the number of trips you make to and from M&S. The SNP will love you.

I have a message for you from my wife.
I am 75 years old, cannot drive because of poor eyesight and have sore knees.
My wife was born ten weeks premature in 1949 weighing less than two pounds in weight. She was a twin but her brother did not survive.
Her optic nerve did not spilt resulting in my wife only having sight in her right eye.
There was no special care baby unit in DRI in 1949.

[islaydarkblue]

The snp can't build a ferry and you want them to build a nuclear power plant������

The Scottish Government owned CMAL cannot build ferries because they are too busy pandering to Patrick Harvie of the Greens.
Energy security is a reserved matter at Westminster so the SNP would have nothing do with building a nuclear power plant.

[islaydarkblue]

Why would M&S apply for planning permission for a building that's already there ,change of use maybe, but was originally a sports shop , so they could hardly say it was unsuitable to be come a shop once more

There are numerous people in Dundee complaining about M & S moving from the Murraygate to the Gallagher Retail park. However the Dundee Coty Councillors are not interested in them.
However these same useless councillors will soon change their tune when other shops in the centre of Dundee including the Murraygate close down due to a lack of footfall resulting in a loss of business rates going into the Council’s coffers.

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I have a message for you from my wife.
I am 75 years old, cannot drive because of poor eyesight and have sore knees.
My wife was born ten weeks premature in 1949 weighing less than two pounds in weight. She was a twin but her brother did not survive.
Her optic nerve did not spilt resulting in my wife only having sight in her right eye.
There was no special care baby unit in DRI in 1949.

I'm sure your wife is a lovely lady and she must have the patience of a saint to tolerate you. However that has what to do with getting on a bus?

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There are numerous people in Dundee complaining about M & S moving from the Murraygate to the Gallagher Retail park. However the Dundee Coty Councillors are not interested in them.
However these same useless councillors will soon change their tune when other shops in the centre of Dundee including the Murraygate close down due to a lack of footfall resulting in a loss of business rates going into the Council’s coffers.

Excuse my ignorance on this matter but what has M&S relocating to a modern facility at Gallacher Retail Park from their previous locations at Murraygate and Gallagher Retail Park got to do with Dundee Council? Did they force them to move? I've noticed a tendency for M&S to move away from city centres to modern shopping centres in other cities, is this not a corporate strategy rather than something being forced on them by councillors who can't be bothered?

[islaydarkblue]

I'm sure your wife is a lovely lady and she must have the patience of a saint to tolerate you. However that has what to do with getting on a bus?

When M & S were in the Murraygate she got the 22 bus which stopped in the Seagate almost directly across the Seagate from M & S which she cannot do now that M & S are situated in the Gallagher Retail park.
I raised this problem with my local councillor and she told me that M & S applied for planning permission to open their store in Gallagher Retail park which resulted in their store in the Murraygate closing down.
I also told my councillor my wife had heard that M & S previously wanted to move into the former Debenhams store in the Overgate Centre but the Dundee City Councillors refused to allow them to move.
My councillor never confirmed if my wife’s information was correct or not.

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When M & S were in the Murraygate she got the 22 bus which stopped in the Seagate almost directly across the Seagate from M & S which she cannot do now that M & S are situated in the Gallagher Retail park.
I raised this problem with my local councillor and she told me that M & S applied for planning permission to open their store in Gallagher Retail park which resulted in their store in the Murraygate closing down.
I also told my councillor my wife had heard that M & S previously wanted to move into the former Debenhams store in the Overgate Centre but the Dundee City Councillors refused to allow them to move.
My councillor never confirmed if my wife’s information was correct or not.

OK, that's cleared something up. M&S wanted the move and it had absolutely nothing to do with the council.

Your wife can get off the 22 bus at Wishart Centre from where it's just a short walk to the Gallacher Retail Park. I also suffer from some knee pain but find that staying active actually helps alleviate the discomfort.

I've had another think. How about rather than you driving your wife to M&S then returning home to await the phone call why not stay there and help your wife with the shopping then drive home? That's most likely the solution I'd come up with as it would save on both time and fuel, is the most environmentally friendly solution if public transport is a problem and allows you to spend some time with the good lady.

I always go shopping with my wife, that way I can get all the little things that I need but she never thinks of - like peanut M&Ms for example.

[Mainlanddee]

Unfortunately the current generation of British people are paying a high price thanks to the tinpot ideas by ‘tree hugging’ senior civil servants at both Westminster and Holyrood.
We would have much cheaper electricity in the U.K. if we had continued building nuclear power stations which happened in France but the bampot SNP controlled Scottish Government have stated that no new nuclear power stations will be built in Scotland.
As far as I am aware energy policy and the building of new power stations in Scotland has not been devolved to the Scottish Government at Holyrood.

The Scottish Government owned CMAL cannot build ferries because they are too busy pandering to Patrick Harvie of the Greens.
Energy security is a reserved matter at Westminster so the SNP would have nothing do with building a nuclear power plant.

Look at your own post , you say Holyrood civil servants and the bampot snp have stopped the building of nuclear power stations in Scotland

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Look at your own post , you say Holyrood civil servants and the bampot snp have stopped the building of nuclear power stations in Scotland

Oh dear, he doesn't like getting his errors pointed out. He'll be along in an hour with a message from his poor wife.

[Dens Park Dynamo]

Oh dear, he doesn't like getting his errors pointed out. He'll be along in an hour with a message from his poor wife.

100 per cent Islay does not like getting his errors pointed out. He keeps pointing out councillors etc should do their homework etc etc but its him that needs do be doing his homework which has been proved on countless occasions.

Islay, the master of avoiding questions and skilled in the art of deflect deflect deflect.