You might think that there were more important things to worry about...

When life becomes dull, when you wonder where the next laugh is going to come from, when skies are grey with tears, you can always rely on the Edinburgh city fathers to raise a smile. Because if you didn't smile you'd weep. The Evening News reports:

COUNCILLORS are to spend £100,000 on new desks and chairs for the City Chambers.
The Labour administration voted through plans to spend the cash on new furniture for the main debating chamber.
But the Tories, Lib Dems and SNP wanted to spend even more money on repairing historic desks and chairs built especially for the council in 1904, which have largely been in storage for around six years...
Around 60 chairs will be purchased and upholstered in leather to match the debating chamber's carpet, while the desks will have a leather inset with the crest of the City of Edinburgh Council.
The chairs will cost £37,000, or £500 each, and the desks £63,000, around £1000 each, with a total cost of £100,000.

It's nice to see that traditions are being maintained.