| Letters - 03 August 2005 |
| Praise for Ninewells |
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| WHILE ON holiday in Turkey, I ended up in a private hospital. |
| I was given intensive treatment, but the personal/observational care was limited.
I am now recovering from an operation at Ninewells Hospital. The staff there are professional and vigilant. The ward was clean and MRSA free.
Dundee folk are fortunate to have such dedicated and experienced staff within our city and we should offer our NHS support and recognise the hard work staff do in difficult and cost-cutting times. — NHS Best. |
| Why can’t we e-mail police? |
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| PERIODICALLY WE hear complaints about people being unable to get through to the police by phone.
The police and the public should look to the use of e-mail. This would be perfect for many matters, such as dumped cars.
Also why not give police officers an incentive to get out on the streets and deal with dog fouling and the dumping of litter?
Many years ago the police used to be rewarded for reporting dog owners without a licence.
Also, I am fed up with people in cars driving about, and discarding their cigarette ends on the streets.
I have never ever heard of one being prosecuted for this. — Law Man. |
| Crescent disgrace |
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A supermarket trolley in Blacklock Crescent, Dundee.
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| THE COUNCIL seems to have forgotten to clean our crescent. It is a disgrace with empty bottles and paper. In addition we have supermarket trolleys lying about. — Mrs B. Strathearn, Blacklock Crescent, Dundee.
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| Brought to senses |
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| WE SHOULD be grateful for small mercies, so the IRA’s capitulation has to be welcomed. However, it is significant two recent unrelated incidents brought it to its senses.
It was obvious a bank robbery in Northern Ireland involved its members, but it was equally obvious the hierarchy knew nothing about this.
Equally the widespread revulsion about the McCartney murder and the IRA’s inaction sounded the organisation’s death knell. — Historian, Dundee.
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| Buying on benefits |
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| WHY ARE people on benefits able to buy the house in which they live?
They will have paid no rent and little Council Tax.
It is the people who work and pay Income Tax who keep them.
If they can afford to buy a house they must be getting money they don’t need. — I. W., Dundee.
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| Community service |
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| I READ in amazement that a 21-year-old man was given community service after being found guilty of seriously assaulting an innocent student with a knife or similar instrument.
What on earth happened to the supposed crackdown on people carrying weapons, never mind using them?
When will politicians and court officials get together and discuss once and for all what should be done? — Mrs Lorraine McCabe.
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| True hardship |
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| I WAS recently angered while on a 22 bus in Dundee. Two young women were sitting in the seats at the front reserved for the disabled. When I approached them I was told that I was clearly more capable of sitting at the back than they were.
Frankly, I was disgusted by their behaviour and feel it is about time these young people learned the true meaning of hardship. — Craig Hanlon. |
| Lost at sea |
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| WHILE LOOKING through some Second World War letters and photographs, I came on a cutting about my uncle William Jardine being lost at sea.
Also mentioned as lost at sea was William Hendry, aged 19, whose family lived at 22 Mauchline Avenue, Mid Craigie, Dundee.
If anyone has any information regarding him could they please get in touch, as I would be interested to know whether he eventually came home safely. — William Meachan, 7 Napier Terrace, Dundee.
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| Falling out |
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| I AM in despair of people who fall out with their fellow citizens over dogs (big dogs v small dogs letters).
I thought keeping a pet was about promoting health in the owner. Apparently it could bring on a coronary. — Get A Life.
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| Devon call |
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| TRYING TO get a Dundee phone number I ended up talking to somebody in Devon when I used one of the 118 companies.
They couldn’t supply the number, which I later obtained. No wonder we have few jobs here in Dundee. — Fintry Reader.
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| Not needed |
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| I GO along with letter writer D. A. B., who highlights the sheer waste of the Scottish Parliament.
Isn’t it time we realised that we don’t need all those middlemen to run our services. — Taxpayer.
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| Higher results |
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| THE TELE published a letter complaining about the closure of St Saviour’s High in Dundee. Their Higher results for 2004 placed them 340th out of 349 in Scotland. — Craigiebank. |
| Lights on |
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| THE AUTHORITIES should do something about two lights in Princes Street, Dundee, and one in Victoria Street, burning all day. — Princes Street Dweller. |
| Pay young neighbour |
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| I WAS appalled that a 75-year-old man did not get his grass cut free by the council. He should give a young neighbour a few quid to do it. — Appalled.
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| Noon AGM |
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| LOOKIN’ GOOD’S AGM is on Tuesday, August 30, in St Columba’s Church Hall, Derwent Avenue, Dundee, at noon. All members welcome. — Committee.
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