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Given the housing boom in Edinburgh, Scottish Borders Council should pay more attention to Reston and Berwick. I foresee Reston as the site of a new park-and-ride facility for the eastern Borders to allow people to get into Edinburgh and, vice versa, to allow people to get out of the town to visit our area.
The impression has perhaps been given that the independent body would be a large, overarching, expensive, new type of quango. That is not necessarily what we envisaged, but we did not get into the detail of what the independent body should be.
After the council sent out a letter saying that residents would get the bins in five weeks' time, people started to get in touch with the councillor to tell him that they had not heard anything about such a decision.
The important point is that people will still be able to get their money from the Post Office after the Government moves to direct payment.I would argue that new banking services and the introduction of the Post Office card account are central to the future of the Post Office.