My only option was to phone 999. The gentleman I spoke to was great and got a unit on to my complaint straight away.

I apologised for having to phone 999 but after this incident I was hoping if there was a quick response, these individuals may still be hanging around and be caught.

Having to call some relatives, I missed a return call from the control room, who asked me to call back with a description as the officers were at the scene.

He told me if I could not get through to Bell Street’s 223200 number, I should call 999 again, which, after failing to get through, I did, quoting the crime number I had been given.

But this time I was spoken to like a criminal because I had phoned the emergency line. I tried to explain I had been told to phone this number, but the second officer told me 999 was for real emergencies and I should call 223200.

I had no choice but to stay on hold to speak to an operator who answered after seven minutes. By this time it was 8.10pm, two hours since I first phoned and, needless to say, the two guys were well away.

So much for improvements in the control room. — Bell Street Caller.

I can’t understand why so many officers spend time in supermarkets during their shift on what can’t be operational matters e.g. buying goods. Are they entitled to use a squad car to fetch a snack for a meal break?

If so, it’s ironic that we can hear, when awaiting a visit from an officer, that they will need to wait for an available car.

Is the Inland Revenue aware of the personal use or gain in using a squad car for this purpose? — Lochee Observer.

The council should sort something out for the children, particularly during holidays, then they wouldn’t be sitting at computers or the TV.

I would not let my child play on the streets as it’s not safe. — Another Concerned Parent.

That means the disabled with taxi cards are not getting free fares. I think the disabled taxi users should also be given a better deal. — Disabled Taxi Card User.

I received my application form last October, and since I had a photograph left over from when I renewed my passport, I completed it there and then and handed into the Post Office within half-an-hour. Yet more than five months later, I am still waiting for my card.

My brother and his wife, who live in Arbroath, both applied in January at exactly the same time. My sister-in-law received her card last week, but my brother is still waiting.

The whole thing seems to be a complete shambles. — Doug Mitchell.

They told me that I would have to fill in another form. I am 77 and I don’t think this is right.

I have worked all my life. How many more has this happened to? — Fed-Up OAP.

The audience went wild at their thumping beat, still potent after 40 years, as they sang along to the nonsense lyrics of Zabadak.

A storm was whipped up on The Legend of Xanadu where Dave cracked a fearsome bullwhip, exactly as he did in 1968 on Top of the Pops.

Wayne Fontana was as entertaining and humorous as always, and PJ Proby brought the house down with his version of American Trilogy.

PJ is now a stately 68 and performed one number from a chair — a far cry from the mid-60s when he was banned from many theatres following an infamous incident when his velvet trousers split on stage two nights in a row.

The show was rounded off by Mr Liverpool himself, Gerry Marsden.

Any friend of The Beatles is all right by me, and it was great to hear all his tuneful hits again. Gerry — “How Do You Do It” after so many years? — Ron Snell, Forest Park Road, Dundee.

This ‘‘support our neighbours’’ nonsense happens every time a championship comes around where Scotland didnae make it.

I have to say I don’t buy into those trains of thought. I wouldn’t say I hate England. That would be difficult to justify as I have family members with mixed blood. But come football, rugby or any other form of competition, I say, get right intae the southern softies. — Not-An-England-Fan.

Some of these, estimated at 30,000, will be criminals and/or terrorists. — W. J. Camtain, Gauldry.