We work in the part of the Leisure Department which is basically being privatised.

Most of us found out about this when we read about it in the papers. The council did not tell us to our face.

If a private company or an SNP-run council had done this, the Labour council would have been up in arms.

If savings have to be made you negotiate with the union and staff. We should not have to find out in a newspaper.

The 14 of us have more than 300 years service, and we think Councillors Jill Shimi and Charles Farquhar should resign.

Mrs Shimi as leader of the administration should hang her head in shame, along with the convener of art and leisure, Mr Farquhar.

We can’t give our names because of council rules. — Angry Staff.

How on earth can he be taken seriously? — Vote Galloway Out.

It is my recollection that the Mona’s hull, after being stripped of all fittings, was then burned. — Councillor Charlie Webster, Bath Street, Broughty Ferry, Dundee.

[The Mona disaster was the subject of an official investigation, and the boat was described as having been 100% sound at the time of the December 1959 accident, which resulted in the loss of all hands.

Among some seamen, it was believed the vessel was tainted with evil, and they resolved to exorcise the boat in a viking ritual.

The Mona was taken to Port Seton on the Forth in the dead of night, stripped of anything of value, chained to the sea wall, and burnt.

The burning was done with the knowledge and permission of Lord Saltoun, the chairman of the Scottish Lifeboat Council.

Not everyone was happy with the fate of the Mona, and questions were raised in the House of Commons about the destruction of a lifeboat built with public subscription.

It is thought the Mona’s fate was partly responsible for a considerable dip in public contributions and legacies for the lifeboats over the next few years.]

The only other country which has comparable advantages in Europe is Norway.

Norway does not have whisky but it does have something better — independence — and so it is free from the ravages of the EU. — Gerry McGuigan.

This garden has to be used by a window cleaner for his ladder to access the upstairs tenants’ windows.

Recently I asked the window cleaner to refrain from trampling over my plants and I suggested an alternative method of moving his ladder around the building.

He refused saying, “I’m not doing that.”

He also told me he would stop doing the upstairs windows because I was moaning.

It’s a sad day when you make a justifiable request to someone in a responsible and courteous manner, and he takes offence. —Larch Street Resident, Dundee.

For the past six months, it has been standing room only on the 1A and 1B buses, which are also often running late because of the volume of passengers.

Also the 30 minutes between each bus should be reduced to at least 15 minutes. — Bus User.

Police, schools and parents have no control, as this was taken from them by regulations to “protect” children, which I believe have been shown not to work.

I was at school in the 80s when the belt was stopped. But it had never, in my experience, been used that much. Often the threat of its use was enough.

All the kids hear about now is ChildLine and parental abuse.

They use these ideas as a threat against their parents, when they don’t get their own way.

Then you have the children’s services who believe a holiday is the best way to deal with bad behaviour.

Since no action is being taken against badly behaved youngsters, we have produced a generation of young adults behaving just as badly. — Use Force.