I’m also angry at the lady who spoke to the Tele saying that during both her stays there was blood and urine on walls in her ward.

People don’t seem to realise that domestics are not allowed to clean any bodily fluids, as they can contaminate our clothes and mops.

The nursing staff are supposed to do this and are provided with their own mops and buckets. The mood of the cleaners is depressing to say the least.

How would you like it if you were criticised at every opportunity. There are good and bad in every walk of life, but don’t tar us all with the same brush. — Disgruntled Domestic.

I couldn’t help wondering where the money comes from for all this excess. But, of course, I then remembered Dundonians pay one of the highest levels of local taxation in the country.

The city council has found another source of revenue lately, in the shape of the ugly lamppost-mounted advertising with which councillors have recently festooned parts of the city.

I can’t help agreeing with those who have complained. It not only does nothing for Dundee’s image, but also makes some unattractive areas of the city even more so.

Of course, we’re used to the preoccupation of the authorities with the superficial at the expense of more important matters — witness the disruption and inconvenience caused to road users in order that a few minor “environmental improvements” can be made to Dundee’s so-called Ambassador Routes.

Another double standard is evident here. I seem to recall that advertising is not allowed on the Ambassador Routes, yet it is deemed fit for other areas of the city, many of which are residential.

The location of some of these things is also curious. For example, the Five Ways roundabout is nicely decorated with flowers, but a short distance away we find the hideous advertising, both north and south in Strathmartine Road.

Then there’s the road safety aspect. The lamppost advertising is clearly designed to attract the attention of drivers.

This is bad enough, but some are situated right beside the bollards and extended pavements which have appeared in recent years, for example near the filling station on Strathmartine Road.

Again this would seem to indicate many councillors pay only lip service to road safety.

Another interesting issue is the use of large vehicles in busy traffic to water the flowers on the Marketgait, which is supposedly a “clearway”, with no stopping allowed. But even in front of Tayside Police headquarters this doesn’t seem to matter.

I seem to recall taxpayers provide the Lord Provost with a rather ornate and expensive-looking lamppost outside his/her residence.

Is it safe to assume that these will now be adorned with advertising to help pay for them? — The Flower Power Man.

These are the fans who all seem to be Celtic fans when the team is winning games and cups. They are the people who say, “I don’t support my local team because they are rubbish”.

Have they never thought that if they actually went to watch their local team attendances would go up, the local team would gain more revenue and, in time, be able to compete (until the Old Firm decide to poach the players and dump them on the bench e.g. Billy Dodds). — Bemused, Dundee.

I WRITE concerning the mural at the Rock bar. As someone who is a fan of a Dundee club I do not find any question of bigotry offensive as this mainly exists in the minds of Old Firm fans.

What I do find offensive is the mural is not of players past and present who played for Dundee and Dundee United.

Is this too much to ask? The pub is, after all, situated in Dundee.

I find it amusing when Old Firm fans, who reside in Dundee, quote traditions, etc., of the clubs they follow when they always omit the fact most Celtic fans are Catholics and most Rangers fans are Protestants or non-Catholics (obviously by pure coincidence).

Time to take off the blinkers. — Local Fan.

So I agree with James Smith about Tony Blair, who clearly prefers millionaires to ordinary people who normally vote Labour and whom he takes for granted.

I do not believe the majority of ordinary people approve of what Blair has done in hijacking their party for the other side.

However, I do not believe Michael Howard would be preferable as prime minister.

I remember well what he was like as a Thatcherite cabinet minister. — Robin Ball, Morgan Street, Dundee.

Ireland has emerged as one of the winners from joining the Common Market. The Celtic Tiger has been largely built from EU handouts.

Meanwhile, every 50p in EU funding attracted to Britain pales in comparison to the £1 we have already put in. — D. A. B.