In any private business, if the workforce outweighs the amount of work then redundancies are inevitable.

Why then does Dundee City Council not shed the people not required?

The time has come when the council has to address this situation.

Why should taxpayers have to pay for people who are superfluous? — Fully Paid Taxpayer.

Yet, on Wednesday, March 15, another six passengers and I could only watch as a number 36 at Commercial Street slowed down and then sped past the stop, probably to catch the green light at the top of the street.

This is not an isolated incident as the people from Mill o’Mains will verify.

About 50% of buses that leave Mill o’ Mains shops are at least two minutes early, with the drivers claiming the timing point is not at the shops but at the other end of the estate.

This leaves people having to cross the busy road to Fintry, as our next bus is an hour away. The investment doesn’t seem to be paying off. — Mrs K. M.

In comparison to the pavements we have to endure in Kemnay Place, they are already 100% better.

Our pavements resemble a bog at times and cannot be walked upon unless you are wearing wellies. — Ms M. D. Boots.

I do not mean the new shelters, but the signage. These were previously on lamp posts and they are being replaced.

I understand the new poles have an illuminated panel, powered by solar energy.

It is a good idea in theory, but at what cost?

I have heard these cost in excess of £1000 each.

Are they being funded from council tax? — Curious.

In the article “Changed Days”, the Harry Key in question was indeed my father. He operated a newsagent and tobacconist’s shop in North Lindsay Street from 1935 until his retiral in 1963.

Thanks to C A Walker for the nice compliment. It’s good to be remembered after all these years. — Marshall Key, Invergowrie.

My late mother was employed by Mr Key senior many years ago. — Old Fintryite.

[After Bread, Peter Howitt had several TV roles, before moving on to directing and writing for films.

He directed hits like Sliding Doors and Johnny English, and is working on three projects at present for release later this year and in 2007.

He still occasionally appears on screen in cameo parts, often uncredited. In the last few years, Peter has added screenwriting to his list of talents.]

Relocation to Livingston is not an option for everyone. My husband drives for Tesco. He sometimes starts as early as 2.30am and works 10–12 hours a day.

If he relocated he would have to leave Dundee at 1 am to go to Livingston to clock in, his run that day may be to Inverness then onto Dingwall, then back to Livingston to clock out, then back up the road to get home.

This probably would work out at a 16–17 hour day, five-days-a-week, which adds up to 80 hours a week and, to top it all, for a wage cut.

After 25 years of committed service, Tesco didn’t even have the decency to contact my husband before the story broke in the Tele. The ‘official letter’ didn’t arrive for another 48 hours.

With the options laid out in the letter, having to be re-interviewed for your job, change in terms and conditions, does Tesco really want its Dundee workers to relocate to Livingston? — Tesco Driver’s Wife.

Tesco claims of a net gain to Scotland of 200 jobs in Livingston loses its gloss when you consider the amount of business and jobs associated with the Dundee operation that will be lost.

The Customer Services Manager says boycotting Tesco will not make it change its mind, then goes on to say that “complaints from the public” forced Tesco to return jobs to the UK that it had previously siphoned off to India. So does Tesco listen to its customers or doesn’t it?

If the family and friends of those affected by this act of betrayal to Dundee want to protest their anger outside every Tesco store to gain maximum media attention for the way their families have been treated, I am certain a vast number of Dundee’s shopping public will be 100% behind them. — Kevin Donnelly.

If I want to move to Livingston I have to wait 13 months to see what terms and conditions, pay and shift patterns I’ll be offered.

If, during my 90 days’ notice, I find a job I can’t take it unless I want to walk away without redundancy money.

As for the great redundancy package, people at Levi’s walked away with more than double what I’ve been offered. Some of the boys are not so lucky as they’re going to have to wait to see what they are offered, as interviews have been suspended.

It seems it’s more important to get the value beans to the shops than discuss the men’s future. — Worker.

It gave me great satisfaction to cut up my Tesco loyalty card in front of my local branch manager. I informed him that if they could not be loyal to their staff, why should I be loyal to them?

Let’s hit them in their pockets. — Wilma Guild.

Uprooting my family to move to Livingston is not an option, as our children are settled in school and we rely on grandparents to look after them while we are at work.

Why did Tesco let all the employees take on computers over a three-year period in December 2005?

They must have known this was going to happen. That’s more money we have lost because of Tesco. Let’s unite and join a boycott. — Ex-Tesco Shopper.

Can you imagine the life of a driver forced to travel all the way to the new depot, take out a rig, then drive home after the shift?

One thing that really bothers me is the new work force and the suggestion they may be migrants willing to work for less.

Over the past few years I have regularly visited relatives in the north-east and have witnessed the gradual takeover of the fish processing industry by these very pleasant and hardworking incomers, whose only fault is that they have under priced the locals out of their jobs.

I visited Peterhead a couple of weeks ago and I could have been in downtown Moscow or Warsaw when shopping on Wednesday. There weren’t many locals around. They shop on Thursday when they get their unemployment giros.

I do not want to see this happen in Dundee and I do not want it to happen to my grandchildren or great-grandchildren.

There was a report Tesco was to bring in Welsh workers, but I cannot believe the Welsh, with their history of labour struggles at the pithead, would become scab labour.

I won’t shop at Tesco until this matter is settled. — Dundee Granny.

This is untrue. As an administrator of an online community for Tesco employees: www.VeryLittleHelps.com (independent of Tesco) I can tell you it was our online members who got word to Wales about the Dundee situation. They had no idea why they were being asked to go to Scotland. They hadn’t been told about the closures and redundancies. Once they knew, many of them changed their minds.

We have now heard that 15 who are going have no choice. Some are employees who are on Options schemes for management training. If they refuse to go, they will be taken off the scheme.

Please let Dundee know that VLH.com and its members from all over the UK are doing everything we can to support the depots in Scotland. — The Mrs.