The prices at £1.50 for the small merry-go-round were also a disgrace.

In addition, our Christmas lights must be the poorest in the country. — Coldsider.

Is this a Dundee company?

If you look at the web site of Hornes Pleasure Fairs (www.hornespleasurefairs.co.uk) their address is given as Fir Grove, Dunfermline, Fife.

They also provide on their web site the information that one of their events is, to quote — “Camperdown Family Amusement Park Boats, Rollercoaster, Dodgem, Swings, Snack Bar, Arcade, Trampolines, and more … Dundee, Fife, Scotland.”

I think the questions should be asked — do Dundonians, on the whole actually want a carnival in the High Street run by a Dunfermline company for two or three days instead of a council-organised celebration on Hogmanay? — Townie Tam.

[The eight-man crew of the Broughty Ferry lifeboat Mona were on their way to assist the North Carr Lightship, which was adrift in St Andrews Bay, on December 8, 1959.

The Mona was overwhelmed by mountainous seas in the bay and was lost with all hands.

During her 24 years on station, the Mona had saved more lives than her six predecessors.

Like her ill-fated uncompleted journey, her first operation was to aid a lightship. In January 1937, the Mona was launched after the Abertay was swept from her moorings off the Gaa bank into mid-channel.

Five times the lifeboat passed alongside the stricken Abertay, as the crew jumped to safety one at a time.

The Mona was also responsible for many life-saving rescues during the war years.

In 1948, Fifie passengers had reason to thank the Mona, when the Tay ferry Sir William High was impaled on Fowler Rock. Seventy passengers were taken to safety by the Broughty Ferry vessel.

Within two weeks of the 1959 disaster, a volunteer crew was in place with a replacement boat.]

In the past none of the soldiers of Scottish Regiments were ever paid any real money at all and they fought to expand and defend the British Empire, while their own kith and kin were living in hovels all over Scotland.

A Scottish soldier only received 4d (11/2p) per day for fighting in the Boer War in 1899, and only one shilling (5p) per day for fighting in the 1914-18 war.

Many could neither read nor write, and they were slaughtered in their thousands in a matter of a couple of hours at the Battle of the Somme in 1916.

Where was the victory there? None at all.

Those who were lucky enough to come back from that war came back to mass unemployment.

Those who joined Scottish regiments just after that war did so through poverty, not British patriotism.

The Scottish soldier of the past was a product of British poverty, not British patriotism. — Ron Smith, Dundee.

He, or she, does not appear to be as interested in education as many in the expanding tiger economies of the Far East.

These countries are now the new technological powerhouses of the world economy.

The problem in this country is we have for too long placed education way down the list of priorities, and now we squeal when other countries are taking our jobs away.

Although they may have low wages now, they are fast catching up.

I could use the same argument over health spending. Because I keep myself fit, why should my taxes be used to treat the obese, binge drinkers or smokers?

I thought it was only Maggie Thatcher who thought there was no such thing as society. — John Montgomery, March Crescent, Cellardyke.

Now we discover from documents released by the National Archive that the Government has always known Scotland could “go it alone” comfortably.

Indeed Whitehall acknowledged the Government would have to divert a significant amount of resources for Scotland to be as well off as it would be under independence.

With even London admitting the truth why do some Unionists still persist in their lies that Scotland “needs” to be governed from England. — Political Watcher.