I suggest these parents take a walk in the evening round Monifieth. They may be surprised at just what we in the main street have to endure.

Learning respect should start at home.

I wish Constable Fugaccia all the best of luck, he is going to need a lot of it. — Monifieth Resident.

I have grandchildren at this school who are well-mannered and respect others.

I think if you look at any school in the area you will find that there is always a minority who cause a bother and you can’t blame the school — Mrs M. Heenan, St Vincent Court, Broughty Ferry, Dundee.

How would they like it done to their property? The police have been notified. — G. S.

This spokeswoman must be either still of primary school age or a recent incomer to the city. Either way, she apparently has no knowledge of the Dundee Hogmanay tradition.

Until four years ago, there was always some sort of council-organised celebration of Hogmanay in the City Square, even if it was just a rocket from the roof of the Caird Hall.

Indeed, the fantastic celebrations at either end of the “Dundee 800” octocentenial year are well within living memory.

The first year Dundee did nothing was the same Hogmanay, three years ago, when the Edinburgh party was rained off.

I can still remember Dundee council’s sentiment at the time: relief that nothing had been organised in Dundee because it would have been rained off anyway.

My son and myself had gone down to City Square that night, as we had been doing every year since he was old enough to walk. We stood in the pouring rain with around another 50 hardy individuals, waiting for the rocket from the roof of the Caird Hall at midnight, so we could get home out of the rain.

We waited in vain. No rocket; nothing to mark the passing of the old year.

I, like many other Dundonians, am old enough to remember the City Square parties of the 50s, 60s, and even into the 70s, when crowds flocked to the square to enjoy the entertainment, bands, dancers, singers, etc, on a stage set up on the steps of the Caird Hall.

It appears that the council would rather spend any cash on the artificial celebration that is the Christmas lights switch-on in November, a celebration which is nothing more than a retailer-driven event, designed to get into our heads that Christmas is a-comin’ and we should be in the city centre spending money hand over fist. — Doon The Toon.

The council spokeswoman stating that they will instead be having a street market, discount shopping night and a Christmas lights switch-on event cuts little ice.

Call me cynical, but the other cities in Scotland are having these events and yet are still managing to organise a focus for New Year celebrations which encourages revellers to congregate in one easily policeable, and therefore safer, area.

I wonder how many are leaving their home town to celebrate the bringing in of the New Year elsewhere?

Come on DCC, let’s have an event for next year. If the front of the Caird Hall is being used already by the carnival, I suggest the precinct at the Marketgait. — First Footer.

Unfortunately she crashed her car and was shaken, but she saved us all possibly from a fatal collision. This was at 10.40 on Balgillo Road. — M. H.

But while Angus Council is to be congratulated, Dundee Council taxpayers must be furious about the section between Panmurefield and Claypotts.

They have to bear the cost of building two lanes in each direction, while drivers are using only one.

Because of the ridiculous 40mph speed limit, drivers move along the inside lane, convoy style, as to overtake would break the limit.

The outside lanes are only used by chancers gambling that there won’t be a mobile speed camera van waiting round the next bend.

What a waste of money. Dundee councillors should be ashamed of themselves. — Arbroath Commuter.

How much of the £73,520 in fines has actually been collected as this would be a better indicator to measure if the scheme was working?

It has been said that Tayside has a poor record in fine collection, and I find it hard to believe that there has been a sudden burst of eagerness in the local anti-social element to change their ways. — Inverg.

I slowed as I was turning right into Derwent Avenue and saw its woman driver putting make-up on her face.

It’s the likes of her that gives us female drivers a bad name. — M. C., Dundee.