Looking at piles of rubbish overflowing outside the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh last week, Pam Strachan was transported back to another time when the UK was in the grip of large-scale industrial action.
In 1984, the 73-year-old Edinburgh resident remembers having to use boiling water to kill maggots spilling out of bin bags when she was visiting her dying mother in Liverpool.
In other circumstances, Scotland’s first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, might be expected to be under greater strain. But such is the dominance of the debate over independence, and the passions on both sides with polls showing opinion to be almost evenly divided, that other matters tend to take a back seat.
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