Reality seems to have bypassed them. Maybe it is the long holidays they enjoy, four months, plus in-service days, and not forgetting that with the first snowflake on the roof, the school is closed.

I would think with their generous salary and more generous holidays, they would have plenty time to study to become doctors themselves. — Green Cheese.

I also note with interest that immediate relatives of soldiers who lost their lives in Iraq because of suicide bombers in 2004 have called for the resignation of John Vine as an Honorary Colonel in the Army Cadet Force because of his insensitive joke in front of the legal fraternity.

There is hardly a week goes by before there is negative publicity about the management structure of Tayside Police.

I think Mr Vine’s position is becoming untenable and I think he should be asked to resign. — Concerned, Dundee.

Over the holiday weekend, we found our new car had been vandalised, along with the next car in the street.

What good did the youths get from this?

Total value of the damage done is estimated to be around £300.

It was only the other week when vandals struck again at the newly-glazed bus shelters in Fintry.

Do the parents of Fintry not care where their kids are and what they get up to? What has happened to kids respecting other people’s property? And where are the police when all this is happening? — Working Hard For Luxuries.

The justification for this is that crime would go down if there was no money to be made from drugs.

Catching a few dealers and stiffer sentences when they are caught would also bring crime down.

I can see the day when it is perfectly legal to snort cocaine in a public bar — just don’t dare commit the horrendous crime of lighting a cigarette. — S. Bouvier.

All drugs should be banned as they cause too much trouble, sometimes death. — A. O. Young, Craigowan Road, Dundee.

I have been involved in the workshop, which will shortly be known as Youth Street Music Theatre, for many years and know first-hand the impact closure would have caused hundreds of children and youths, most of them from deprived areas.

I am disgusted that Dundee City Council has done nothing to help, though it has been approached on many occasions and advised of the situation.

To my knowledge there is no other place like this in Britain where young people can enjoy a friendly education environment, with every opportunity to show their initiative in music and multi-media, free of charge. Yet our council can’t see it’s potential.

I recently read that Tony Blair’s wife spent over £7500 in one month on hair styling. This would keep the workshop running for a year.

We hope now the council will sit up and take notice of the determination to make this project work and help us with funding and finding more suitable premises.

Our main goal now is to continue fundraising in order to keep Youth Street Music Theatre open and providing all of the facilities free of charge.

If there are any Tele readers out there who think they can help please contact: Janite, Stephanie or Michelle on 07840546396. — Unhappy Council Tax Payer.

I was the only customer in one pub and to say the ban has not affected trade is a travesty of facts. — Smoke And Let Smoke.

They have only sentimental value to the family.

If anybody has any information, can you please contact me. A small reward is offered. — S. Cargill, 172 Clepington Road, Dundee (07704920237).

The single, unemployed only get £56.95 per week, which is ridiculous.

I also agree that the unemployed should start fighting for their rights. There are some lazy unemployed, but come on there, let’s hear the voices of the majority.

Since the start of this year there have been about 1000 jobs lost in Dundee.

So pensioners, lay off the unemployed and think how better off you are. — Mr Kenneth Bird, Hebrides Drive, Dundee.

We know wages are low here. Dundee City Council starts its sheltered housing wardens off at £10,600 a year, just coppers more than the minimum wage, so we are on the way to being on a par with Third World countries.

But we have the answer in our own hands. I changed my phone company when BT took centres to India. I’ve changed my gas supplier since BG took a centre from Cardiff, and I stopped Norwich Union car insurance.

The money that is saved on a “cost-cutting exercise” does not benefit consumers. It lines the pockets of shareholders. — Dundee Reader.

He had a brother, Jackie Weir, who died in World War II aged 21. He also had another brother named Michael.

I know my father has family still in Dundee and I would really love to hear from them.

My father married a Kiwi lady, Betty Mills.

He had two children, myself and Malcolm. Sadly he died in 1993.

My email address is happyhouse5@xtra.co.nz Phone number is 078491771, address is 10 Myrlene Place, Hamilton, New Zealand. — Shirley Collins Pates (nee Weir).