Also on trading days outside Dens Road Market, some vans have disability badges, yet drivers can be seen lifting heavy furniture.

I laughed when the police spent two to three hours in Commercial Street at the pedestrian area and caught 38 drivers.

I work in the area and can honestly say that 38 an hour is the norm. The authorities should remove the pedestrian areas because they do not serve any purpose.

The car driver in Dundee rules. — G. Clarke, Athurstone Terrace, Dundee.

A friend sent me a copy of the paper, which featured the story about my sister Wilma Low and niece Susan Stirling. I enjoyed reading it.

It may interest your readers to know Wilma was a premature baby, who weighted only two or three pounds when she was born and was not expected to survive.

I remember my father saying, “She is only the size of a bag of sugar.”

She is indeed a survivor. Well done Wilma and Susan. — Elizabeth Paul, London.

[Our story told how Wilma, from Fintry, Dundee, donated a kidney to her daughter Susan.]

Greenfields are popular because they offer both luxury and isolation — a rural lifestyle within easy distance of the city centre.

Dundee has a shortage of such housing.

On The Move will no doubt be aware that until recently homebuyers, looking for property at the top end of the market, by-passed Dundee and purchased in Angus and Perthshire.

Work in Dundee but live elsewhere has been the message for far too long.

Dundee has come a long way. The biotech and new media sectors continue to grow and with them come better paid jobs.

Dundee City Council must continue to take steps to attract creative people to the city. In housing terms this means providing the type of house they wish to buy. — L. M. L.

THE LETTER from On The Move and his or her solution to arresting the population slide in Dundee is short-sighted.

That developments continue to spring up all over the city suggests there is a demand for quality housing, be it on greenfield or brownfield sites.

Giving people what they want is crucial if the predicted decline is to be arrested, never mind reversed.

The letter writer suggests the council should halt all further building.

To do this would be to hand the initiative to neighbouring Angus and Perthshire, who have both shown a willingness to build. — F. P. R.

I WAS interested to read the letter complaining about more house building in Dundee. Further house building can only help to redress the population loss.

Does it really matter who will live in these houses as long as someone does? For years Dundee has lost out to Perthshire and Angus. They have built whereas we have not.

Today the city has the jobs, but other authorities reap the rewards in council tax. We must change this. —J. Brown, Dundee.

REPORTS INDICATE strong demand for the kind of luxury housing about which letter writer On The Move moans. How anyone can afford houses in the quarter million pound bracket is beyond me. But that they can is their business. Good luck to them. — G. M.

I wonder what happened to it? When the Sinderins was demolished it disappeared.

The kids of Blackness Primary School would arrange to meet at the gargoyle.

On one occasion we decided to hold a gargoyle impression competition.

I often wonder what the passers by thought when they saw us with faces contorted into grotesque shapes. — Eck French, Perth Road, Dundee.

After finding a clean table my partner went to order.

She waited 20 minutes to be served and was told it would take another 15 minutes.

I don’t blame the staff but surely things can be run better. — T. Mac.