We both still serve frozen food in schools. In the last few days the kids had turkey drummers, chicken nuggets, lamb tendersteaks and frozen fish. The list of the contents of our freezers is endless.

We wonder which schools in this area serve only fresh food because we know a lot of other dinner ladies and they all serve frozen food. — Two Dinner Ladies.

I then opened the same paper of March 18 to page 3 to read that Dundee’s personal bankruptcy figures are spiralling upward at an alarming rate — a growth of 200% in less than a decade.

Which is the true picture of this shrinking city — Mr McConnell’s rose-tinted distance view or the real picture of folk losing everything or leaving, partly due to the high Council Tax?

The First Minister wasn’t even in Dundee when he was lauding the excellent, but small in ordinary folks’ eyes, leaps the science-based enterprises have made. He was 30 miles away.

How many folk visiting the dole offices, or working in low-paid jobs, could ever hope to land one of the jobs being created in the science/ biotech sector?

Most are taken up by suitably-qualified, non-Dundonians who, on getting these well-paid jobs, live outside the city.

If McConnell had spent some time actually visiting the city and gathering the views of we ordinary mortals, who work but are finding it harder every year to survive, he would have got a shock. — In Debt and Despair.

I have recently been using disabled bays as I am awaiting an operation on my knee and cannot walk far without pain.

I do not have a disabled badge but would take offence at any supermarket employee telling me not to park my car in a disabled bay.

I would never condone parking in one of these when fully fit, but everyone knows some people with these badges do not really need them.

Also I don’t see an outcry when fit people have to drive round and round the city centre because disabled drivers are in non-disabled bays. — Live and Let Live.

The last time I can recall this happening here was on August 4, 1966, at Dundee’s Top-Ten Club at the Palais in Tay Street, sadly no more.

The Troggs played live on a memorable night when they were No 1 with A Girl Like You.

They were also No 1 at the same time in the States with Wild Thing.

I was lucky that night and met the band and got all of their autographs on a photo. — Andrew Cameron, Dundee.

FEW PEOPLE realise that Tony Christie’s hit Is This The Way To Amarillo? was written by Neil Sedaka.

Sedaka rose to fame in 1961 with Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen.

He also had a string of hits in the 70s with Laughter In The Rain, That’s When The Music Takes Me and Standing On The Inside. — J. I. Matthew.

Here in Canada the BBC is ordered and paid for through a cable or satellite provider.

Most commercial TV is absolute tripe and any British person coming to live in North America usually finds it takes a while to get used to the mind-numbing, relentless interference of adverts.

Thank goodness for remote controls. — BBC Lover, Canada.

I CAN’T agree that 35p per day is a ridiculously-high fee to pay for the BBC’s TV and radio stations.

That is a lot of entertainment and information for the money. — Fintryman.

I suggest the Chancellor starts with Blackness Primary School in Dundee. This building has had its day and goes nowhere near meeting the needs of a modern school.

Exercise facilities are desperately needed, particularly with obesity being high on the agenda.

In fact I would go as far as saying in these ecumenically enlightened times, it might be worth exploring the merger of Blackness and St Joseph’s.

The venue for this new school could be the playing fields adjacent to Victoria Hospital, which are not fully utilised.

Sadly, the reality is that PFI funding of schools is here to stay. — James Hutchison.

Professor Robert Winston claims gender selection should be permitted in special circumstances because such special circumstances are rare.

This is a rather bizarre approach to ethics. If something is morally wrong, then it is wrong absolutely.

In my view people who express the desire to have a child of a particular gender are sexists who intend to raise their child to fit a stereotype.

What if a girl becomes a tomboy? How might such a child cope knowing her personality is probably disappointing her parents. —Dundee Feminist.

They should use an aircraft carrier or a cruise liner anchored out at sea.

Then we would not have huge anti-protest groups and large policing costs and taxpayers and the Scottish Executive would be a few £million better off. — Concerned Reader.