I hope I am not too late to submit an alternative design for the Gretna crossing sculpture, the Star of Caledonia (Scotsman, 22 February). I think the current proposal lacks ambition, only being 33 metres high
My suggestion would be for a 250 metre high wind turbine in saltire colours with a blue tower and four white rotating blades. The turbine could be surrounded by a circle of 80 metre electricity pylons and the whole sculpture could be adorned with some nice intermittent flashing fairy lights.
I think this would be a fitting welcome to Scotland for visitors and would prepare them for what they are going to encounter as they head north into all the regions.
Rather than representing “Scottish brainpower”, I think this sculpture would be a fitting legacy to the unfathomable stupidity of Scottish Government ministers and their wanton destruction of Scotland’s once famed landscapes and scenery.
Detailed drawings are available if required.
W Douglas, Hawick, Scottish Borders
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