| Letters - 25 October 2005 |
| CCTV doesn’t achieve much |
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| I AM appalled at the way children are running riot in the Whitfield estate in Dundee. |
| The new bus shelters were smashed to smithereens.
Do these children not realise the people who pay Council Tax are replacing the broken glass. How do their parents feel every year when their Council Tax is increased?
The CCTV cameras in the area don’t seem to achieve very much. — Fed-Up, Whitfield. |
| Fair and square |
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| REGARDING THE speed limit signs on the Kingsway, I have had a look at the relevant directive, the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2002, which came into effect on January 31, 2003.
It is quite clear that speed signs are required on both sides of the carriageway where a speed limit change is enforced.
The signs indicating this change on the Kingsway are situated before the Forfar Road roundabout.
When reading the regulations, it becomes clear that this is the only possible place they can be situated given that upon entering this roundabout the speed limit changes not only for the Kingsway, but Forfar Road as well.
I’m afraid to say your reader was simply not paying enough attention to the signs as she approached the roundabout and was caught fair and square. — Eric Manzie, Easter Balgarvie, Cupar. |
| Reunion |
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| THIS IS reminder about our 30-year school reunion for pupils who started school in 1971 and left Dundee’s Linlathen High in 1975. It is taking place on Saturday, October 29, at 7.30pm in Customs House, Smugglers, Dundee.
It would be great if we all met up again. Please don’t hesitate to give us a call or just turn up on the night. — Denise Duffy (07725592346), Caroline Davidson (07832234899) and Susan Braid (07830382214). |
| Stop moaning |
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| I WISH Dundee travellers would stop moaning about who has the right to sit where on a bus.
The signs at the front of the bus say “Buggy Zone or People with heavy shopping”, the front couple of rows have a sign saying “please be prepared to give up this seat to someone who needs it more than you do”.
Just because you’re an OAP does not give you the right to assume you have a right to sit at the front of the bus,
There are illnesses out there that are not visible to the eye and just because someone looks healthy, and you feel you deserve that seat, does not mean there is not a reason for them not giving it up.
Yes, many youngsters nowadays can be very ignorant and will not dream of treating people of any age with any respect. But not everyone who doesn’t give up a seat does so through bad manners — Fed Up Listening.
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| Named for founder |
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The Victoria Road church.
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| WHEN WAS the church in Victoria Road, recently demolished, last used for regular services and what denomination used it? — B. S.
[Although we are unable to say when the church was last used for a service, our files do have information on its origins.
It was built in the 1870s, and was known as The Evangelical Union Church, although many referred to it as The Morisonian Church after Dr James Morison founder of the Evangelical Union.
During the ministry of William Hamilton it became Trinity Congregational Church, a name it kept until it fell into disuse. ] |
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| I BELIEVE National Lottery operator Camelot has millions of pounds in unclaimed prizes.
Given this, surely the company should have paid out to the Dundee woman in her late seventies who lost out on her £7000 prize.
The woman who got the money just has to pay £5000 back in small installments.
Camelot should pay the lady as a goodwill gesture and then claim it back off the offender. — Concerned Lottery Player.
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| Lochee meeting |
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| ON SEPTEMBER 20, in the Readers’ Letters, M. S., West End suggested that the people of Lochee should get together to form a community council for the area.
I invite M. S. and all other residents of Lochee to a public meeting to do this very thing.
The meeting will be held in Lochee Library, 47 High Street, on Wednesday, October 26, at 7.30pm.
If all goes well, we will take the first steps in forming a Community Council then. — Ron Birrell, Community Worker. |
| Insult |
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| I ASSUME the editor of the Evening Telegraph has just left a job editing the Beano for them to believe the population of Dundee is interested in the headline “No web romance”.
For this to be the lead story is an insult to the intelligence of readers. With all that is happening in the world today, I cannot believe you could not find an item more newsworthy than this. — Garry Crystal.
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| Understanding |
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| I THANK the staff of Vinci car park at Ninewells Hospital for their understanding when I parked in the wrong place. After some of the negative publicity they have had, it’s nice to know that it’s not always bad. — I. Quinn. |
| Prefabs built on pond site |
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| I THINK the lady who first wrote about the ponds at the Linlathen Bridge, Dundee, was referring to the “hole” on the left side of the bridge which was filled with water. It even had fish in it.
The council filled it in to build prefabs.
I delivered milk to the three cottages.
It’s where the Finlathen Football Park is now.
There were other ponds at Trottick and also where the car park at Somerfields now is.
They were at the Bleachworks where there was also a mill with a water driven wheel.
When the mill burned down, the owner moved to thatched cottages 50 yards from the gate of Midmill Park. I passed the cottages every day on my way to Drumgeith School. — R. A., Dundee.
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