Unfortunately, medical advances have not been matched by funding from the Government, leaving health service chiefs to make difficult decisions.

The EU’s Directive on Working Time complicates matters, limiting the number of hours a doctor can work.

The requirement to keep doctors’ skills up to date, which numerically cannot be done at the smaller hospitals, has led to the transfer of services to Ninewells.

I share the frustration of letter writer Staff Nurse. For all the extra work heaped on Dundee-based staff, what thanks to we get?

Local residents struggle to find parking spaces thanks to selfish commuters determined to avoid paying parking charges.

Focus groups, blind to the financial reality of the situation, agitate for the retention of maternity services.

Others turn up for operations loaded with detergents and mops.

Rarely is there positive comment made about the overworked staff at Ninewells.

It appears nothing they do is ever good enough.

Given the chance I would vote tomorrow for the services at Stracathro and PRI to be re-instated. — Worm Is Turning.

A lady in a white uniform picked me up off the floor, before Donna Hughes ushered us off the bus.

A gentleman in a Highland dress outfit lifted my son and me through the rear window emergency exit.

Lorraine then comforted George and me until my husband arrived, while Dave ran around trying to get a taxi so that we could get to Ninewells Hospital because of our injuries.

It was unbelievable that nobody was killed. — Mrs J. Boyle, Whitfield Rise, Dundee.

A vast amount of home PC users have the ability to copy music, either legally or illegally, from a plethora of Internet websites.

Whether they go on to sell the items is another matter but it is excessive to compare schoolboys’ recordings and the more serious threats posed by international drug trafficking and terrorism.

Concerned Parent need have little fear that the “ghastly trail to my door” created by her son bringing home CDs from school will encourage Al Quaida.

Also bands have been using abusive language in music for decades. As a teenager, I just hid my record collection from my parents.

To prove little has changed in 30 years, get hold of some punk material from the 70s and get ready to cover your ears. — Aberdeen Angus.

I have seen these spaces abused by able-bodied drivers for years. They park in these spaces because they know they will get away with it. It would help everyone if traffic wardens and police enforced the law.

Downfield Driver should also remember that, even with a disabled parking badge, there are some places out of bounds, so his or her fine was probably issued correctly. — Disabled Driver.

He was a keen fisherman. His wife’s name was Mary.

Mr Robertson was a close friend of Walter Lindrum (1898-1960), the world billiards champion from 1933 to 1950.

I am writing a second biography of Walter (the first was published in 1982). — Andrew Ricketts, PO Box 316, YOUNG, NSW 2594, Australia (tel 02 63822910; email rickets@dragnet.com.au)

He doesn’t want the extra money to come from the Council Tax, but would find another solution.

The public is bright enough to realise that no matter from where the extra money comes, it comes out of the public purse, paid for by the ordinary person in the street. — Fed Up Tax Payer.

For while it was clear that a coherent performance from Senator John Kerry over his stuttering opponent is winning the day, it was striking to note his pledge that American foreign policy, and involvement in Iraq, would not be too dissimilar from that in place. — Mr S. Robertson, Dundee.

This entails the issuing of pin numbers by the bank.

So now, if I get someone to collect my pension, I will have to reveal my pin number. — Confused.