Speaking as a user of the service I would much rather fly the published STAR at the pupblished speeds to the hold fix and then be picked off from there for an approach. We seem to get everything but. There seems to be an extreme reluctance by Scottish to use the holds. Speed seems to be the prefered option and varies from "fast as you can" until well after Peebles to "250 or less" upto 30 BEFORE NEW. If 10W think that we will always be expecting to go to the hold then he is mistaken. It is only entered in the FMS if (rarely) we think we are going there.
However the service we get from Scottish nbound to GLA generally seems to be better.