One of its slogans is “People are disabled by society’s reaction to impairment preventing their participation as equal citizens”.

Dundee does indeed need more taxis that can be used by all disabled people.

These new licences are to be given to people whose vehicles will take wheelchairs.

This usually means the need to take out seats to take a wheelchair. Who is going to check these cabs will have these seats removed permanently?

Going on past experience, some firms have been given licences to do this and after a few weeks the seats are back with a few cars left to take wheelchairs.

The new disability laws come into effect in October, but will Dundee have more cabs suitable for wheelchairs?

I doubt it.

Taxi drivers are quick to say they have to earn their living (very true) and it takes longer to put up a ramp and push in a wheelchair so this hits their earnings.

Disabled people want to be included in society so taxis should be available to all members of the public as should public transport.

If the new licences were only given to owners of TXII London taxis or similar cabs, which everyone could use (wheelchair users, elderly, blind, deaf, parent and child), then drivers would not be able to complain because their earnings would not drop.

Non-disabled people should not be making decisions on what is best for us. No-one who is able-bodied understands the loss of independence. Roll on October. — Wanta Taxi

I phoned the Independent Television Commission earlier regarding reception on Channel 4 from Taybridge.

During the discussion, I asked about the possible date when this transmitter would start a digital service and was advised there were no plans for such a service. I was told Dundee is within the range of the Tayside transmitter at Tealing and this service was considered to be sufficient.

There is also apparently a shortage of TV channels and this also would preclude such a service from the Taybridge transmitter.

The good news is that Dundee now has a full digital radio service. I would recommend listeners to invest in a digital radio, especially those like myself of a certain vintage who now have access to a radio station which plays music from yesteryear. The reception is excellent. — Old Timer.

It is thought the new facility would house Dundee Tigers ice hockey club, which would turn professional as this is not possible at the club’s present home at Dundee Ice Arena.

The move would also enable the club to develop ice hockey players all the way from early starters to professional status.

These moves will obviously hit the incomes of Dundee Ice Arena and the Texol Stars professional team .

Am I correct in saying that the arena is council owned and gets a subsidy? — Iceman.

[The arena is owned by Dundee City Council. Just over a year ago councillors approved £42,000 to help meet an estimated £113,000 gap between income and expenditure. The rest was to be made up from the arena’s reserves.

The possibility remains of an annual payment being made in future years up to 2010, the sum to be agreed between the council and the arena board.]

I don’t know how much paperboys and girls are paid these days or how many papers they deliver on a round.

However, I know when I pay the newsagent I also pay a delivery charge. I believe each customer pays a different amount according to the number of papers he or she gets.

So who pays the wages of the boys and girls — the newsagent or the customer? It looks like the customer.

Parents don’t force their children to go out and deliver papers. They do it for extra money. — Interested Granny.

This stated the obvious — Dundee is a poor city and many of its inhabitants live on or under the breadline.

Can Mr Jim Milne, leader of the Dundee Anti-Poverty Forum, tell us exactly how much the forum costs the taxpayer, how many employees there are and the salary total?

Perhaps he could also enlighten us as to how the forum works and a list of its successes to date. — K. S.

By overstaying her visa by a few days in 1998, in the eyes of officials she represents a threat to the United States of America.

Only minds deprived of reason could treat this grandmother so callously.

Perhaps one day we will get rid of the lunatics who are now in charge of the asylum that once was our great republic. — Wilson Boozer, Market Street, San Francisco, California.

I’m not angry, just sad that this depraved vermin can stoop so low.

I’m a generous person so I would have given him or her money if he or she couldn’t afford one. — E. Barty, Dundee.