Those who are dishonest or immoral should do the honourable thing and resign.

This applies to MPs, MSPs, MEPs and councillors.

This country has sunk to a new low. — Dundee Reader.

If this is not the case, why are roads being allowed to deteriorate so much before being repaired and when does the council plan to start the repairs?

I am aware that repair schedules have to be planned but it seems that the city council is happy to sit on its hands until it is forced to do something.

I have just had the privilege of paying another £96 for six months’ road tax to drive on what are fast becoming farm tracks. — R. C., Dundee.

However, I do have one complaint, albeit a small one. It isn’t always clear what designation some of the staff are.

One chap was sporting a food-stained T-shirt and had no identification whatsoever. — Ms M. Findhorn, Clepington Road, Dundee.

For too long, Dundee has missed out to Scotland’s other cities on opportunities to host such events.

It will be both a boost in status and a welcome source of revenue for the city.

Hopefully this signals a turning point in Dundee’s path and puts us back on the map as a city on the up.

I will be home this weekend for the festival and look forward to the fantastic musical line-up. — Duncan McCann, London.

She worked and saved hard for her car and is now going to lose her no-claims bonus and be £250 out of pocket. — Honest Citizen.

He, or she, saw an opportunity to make a living in the trade, but has since found the long hours lack the recompense he, or she, thought available.

The problem of rank space is not new and has been exasperated by the issuing of new licences to people like Where To Guv’nor.

I have no problem with these vehicles coming into the trade and wish them all the best because they do have an important role.

However, do not call myself, or my compatriots, prehistoric saloon car drivers as we have been serving the public for many years.

There are plenty of able-bodied people, and indeed disabled people, in Dundee who do not and, in some cases cannot, travel in a van. — S. Smith, Lauderdale Avenue, Dundee.

People with arthritis, replacement hips etc., cannot get into these cabs easily and often specifically ask for a “saloon” type taxi.

If there were no longer any of these “prehistoric” cars, as Where To Guv’nor calls them, how would they get about? — Think Of Others.

Is it possible to have this reporting relegated to one section, preferably in the back of the paper?

I want to read, instead, that our Government is intending to lock up these criminals and throw away the key.

Silly me, a newspaper doesn’t print fiction. — Dream On.

In the time of Wallace and Bruce we had hardly three quarters of a million, and there were no populated cities for hundreds of years.

It was never an economically progressive country until the Industrial Revolution when its population soared to two million by 1820.

England’s population at that time was 12 million, and France had 30 million.

Scotland’s maximum numbers in the 20th century ranged between four and five million, whereas England had 45 million.

I do not think an independent Scotland will ever help to enlarge our population. It may do quite the opposite. — Ron Smith, Dundee.

The attitude has not usually been apologetic. More often than not I am looked on as either as a miser or a troublemaker.

When comparing experiences with other customers, it would seem to be a common problem within Dundee’s city centre.

Some publicans are either turning a blind eye to the shortcomings of their staff, or they may be encouraging short measures to maximize profits — InverG.

I would challenge anyone to teach (officially ranked as the most stressful profession) and find out the reality of the job and the ‘‘long holidays’’.

The latter is mostly taken up with preparation, correcting, reporting and Continued Professional Development.

Few teachers earn £43,000 gross. Even so, that is a far cry from £160,000.

A doctor or dentist should not have a take-home salary of £100,000. They earned much less two or three years ago and did much more work. This has to be another Government mistake which should be rectified. — Stunned.