What would be more productive would be for a system of varying tolls to be implemented — free for public transport and energy-efficient vehicles, while charging more for single-person journeys to encourage car-sharing.

The Scottish Green Party seem to be one of the few parties who practise what they preach rather than adopt the cynical populist stances of other parties. — George Burton, Logie, Dundee.

So much for the people who say scrapping the tolls would cause congestion.

The best thing to do is to put speed cameras on the bridge and catch all the speedsters and make more money than the tolls ever did. — Fifer.

Even if tolls are eventually abolished the bridge will not be free as we would want you to think.

The 80p toll is paid at source and goes directly to bridge upkeep, but the costs will be added many times over for every taxpayer in Scotland. — G. Paton.

I suppose this highlights what funny people politicians can be sometimes.

However, the joke must be on the people of Fife because no one actually voted for this list MSP. — Malcolm McCandless.

Can Mr Scott reveal where all these extra cars will come from and where they disappeared to on Tuesday when the bridge was toll free?

I crossed the bridge at 5 pm and encountered no hold-ups due to the extra 10,000 cars at all, and that despite only two gates open.

Maybe the extra cars belong to the workers on strike that day. — Eric Manzie. Dundee.

My father, Thomas Keith Barron, was born in Alexander Street in 1915.

His father was Peter Cameron Barron and mother Elizabeth (nee Keith).

I have a photograph of what I think is my grandmother and my father’s sisters.

I think that one of his sisters lived in Byron Street as I have a short letter from number 68 with the names Lydia, Arthur, Betty, Margaret and Annie mentioned.

One of my father’s sisters moved to the USA. I think her name was Meg or Megan.

My father served in the Royal Artillery in the Second World War, and was stationed near Cardiff, where he met my mother. They were married there in 1942.

When my father died in 1966 in Cardiff, two of his brothers came to his funeral. — Reg Barron, 115 Somerton Road, Newport, Gwent, NP19 05X.

At a time when we are all concerned with “miles to plate” figures on the foods we buy (green beans from Kenya etc.) has Tesco management performed an Environmental Impact Assessment on their decision to move the Dundee distribution depot to Livingston?

If they have, can we all be privy to their findings?

I for one will accept their decision to close Dundee a little easier if I know that we will all benefit by a reduction in harmful CO2 emissions.

“Every little helps”, especially when it comes to the planet. — Green Shopper.

However, based on personal experience, I have a hunch that Tesco plans to replace the depot with an extension to the already successful call centre.

Jobs that were outsourced to India have recently been returned to the UK.

Dundee has incredible resources to staff call centres and the U-turn Tesco have performed only cements that. — Grateful Tesco Shopper.

Why don’t they erect a statue for The Black Watch?— C. A. Walker, Lochee, Dundee.

An Islamic centre on the site of the old Logie School is not wanted by residents.

There is already one further down Blackness Road. Let’s not turn this area into a religious ghetto. — Dundee Reader.

People smoke, they do not want to give up, and many of them lead long and active lives. I sympathise entirely with the family of Jim Donachie.

However, it is difficult to imagine how Stewart Donachie’s proposal of exempting the elderly and disabled from the law would work in practice. Who would make these decisions, and how?

The better solution would be to realise that the ban is ill-thought through and to lift it entirely. — B. C.

The Chancellor put 1p on the price of a pint in the Budget, but I bet it will go up more in the pubs. — Doug, Monifieth.

One of my favourites came at a Carlisle football match where, just before the game was about to start, an assistant referee spotted a small hole in the side netting. He called the ref over and just as he got to the netting a huge voice bellowed,

“Hey ref, don’t bother with that little hole in the side. This lot can’t get it through the big one in the front!”

I will acknowledge all contributions used, — Mick Appleby, 134, Swarkestone Rd, Chellaston, Derby, DE73 5UD.