Frosty the snowman

As a parent of 'musical children' who have received both free and paid tuition over the years I would just like to offer my support to the 'keep it free' campaign. Unfortunately I fear that the alternative route the sic could go down would be to delete some tutor posts. Surely in that case it would be better to pay a little than have no tuition at all. The £4 or £5 per lesson would still be highly subsidised. If you are going private the fee would be much greater. There is no doubt that the SIC has to make budget cuts and whichever group is targeted will look upon it as unfair.

We had a family holiday in Norway a few years ago before the Naronna stopped running. It was one of the best holidays we've had. The scenery is absolutely breathtaking. We stayed in hyttas(?) - peerie self catering 'huts' which were great value. Geiranger was spectacular, as was the Flam railway. Would recommend Norway to anyone as long as they don't want to go shopping or/and drinking

I'm sure that oddtablet is right up there on the high moral ground, has never accidentally left anything unlocked, and is completely perfect. I have no doubt that the family are extremely grateful to the person who found the accordion on SUNDAY evening and phoned the police, the polis failed to even acknowledge this fact and never told the family. Apparently when it was reported the finder was told by the police 'if someone reports a missing accordion we will let you know'. Only when the article came on line on the Shetland News web site did the finder contact the accordion owner as they were surprised that the police had not contacted her themselves. The fastest the police moved was when the family told the police it had been found and they personally were going to pick it up. So now the police are holding it for fingerprints - what a joke - might as well take fingerprints from the Lounge door. Why no fingerprints taken from the boot of the car???? The family have said no repercussions, all they wanted was to get the box returned to its rightful owner. Ghostrider seems to have heaps of inside info into the workings of the police ....... perhaps he/she could put in a word to expediate the return of the accordion.