I do my food shopping and clothes shopping there. I have a Dundee dialling code and postcode. I like the city and its people and I cannot find any justification in paying my council tax to Perth and Kinross.

In the past year I’ve visited Perth twice.

In the six years I have lived in Invergowrie, and despite the severe traffic problem, I’ve never seen a council parking attendant here.

So I would like to appeal to local council and local government representatives, who continuously send me mail threatening of the disastrous consequences for Invergowrie if we were to be ‘reclaimed’ by Dundee, that most residents would like something done about the Main Street being used as a ‘rat run’ and the fact that school children are put at risk due to the narrowness of pavements outside their school.

It would be nice to see someone address the serious issue of flooding in Boniface Road because this has been ignored by Perth and Kinross council for far too long.

I would ask other Invergowrie residents to consider how often they visit Perth or use Perth and Kinross facilities in comparison to Dundee.

Unfortunately for some Invergowrie residents it is not the prospect of an increase in council tax that worries them, but that of having to say they come from Dundee. — Invergowrie Resident.

INVERGOWRIE READER Fair Play is correct to highlight the dependence outlying areas have on Dundee.

Benefits derived from the city by out-of-towners relate to jobs, shopping, leisure, cultural and, in some cases, educational facilities.

Other significant benefits can be registration with a Dundee GP and/or a dentist.

One of the more obvious cultural attractions is Dundee Rep.

Despite its reputation for innovative theatre, and its runaway success at last year’s National Critics Awards, The Rep depends on financial assistance from outside agencies, including Dundee City Council. Its revenue grant this year is £335,000. Everyone has an equal opportunity to enjoy all this resource has to offer.

No fewer than 70 full-time equivalent jobs are sustained by its presence. Residents from areas outwith the city work there.

As the reader from Invergowrie points out, this issue involves the “wider community”. — L. M.

I READ Fair Play’s letter and add, as an Invergowrie resident, it is awkward that we come under the Perth authority.

Recently my heating/hot water system broke down. It took 24 hours and three phone calls before the fault was remedied.

The company is Dundee based and it turns out that if I reported the breakdown at 8 am the fault should be sorted that same forenoon.

It would appear we in Invergowrie are out of sight and out of mind in Perth except when it comes to Council Tax and rent increases. — Fair Play II.

One boy was actually trying to outrun a car, and others were playing tig around parked cars.

I suggest more road safety talks from the police might do the trick.

The car drivers were going slowly, which was just as well. — Fintry Mother.

I am well into my 80s now, but when I was about five, our main treat in the summer was a trip on the ferry to the “Fifie” braes.

Sandwiches were taken and dad would “bile up” the tea on a fire made of old wood collected from the seashore.

If we were very lucky, we got sweets or an ice cream.

£1.75 (the cost of a bowl of soup) in those days would have fed a family for a week.

How times change. — Muggie Rattray, Perth Road, Dundee.

[We can find no reference to Tony Blackburn having been in the RAF, nor being related to Matthew Wright.

Tony was born in Guildford, Surrey, on January 9, 1943.]

Dancer Isidora Duncan always wore long scarves and she wore them while driving her open-top car.

One day her scarf was wedged at her back wheel and the distinguished star was strangled. — J. I. Matthew.

The licence goes up every year, so it’s no wonder people are evading paying the licence.

It should be the case that if you wish to view BBC programmes you pay and if not you don’t.

At the cost of £126.50 I reckon no one would want to watch the BBC.

It’s not the dodgers who have it wrong. — TV Sale.

Snobbery and class distinction have blighted society in Britain. — Westender, Dundee.

Nowadays it can take weeks and may require two or three phone calls.

It seems we are going backwards. — Forward.