In March, my 13-year-old daughter and her older sister were in a shopping centre. They were approached by two Polish men and one of them indecently assaulted my 13-year-old.

This was reported to security staff, who were really very understanding and I say a big thank-you to them for their help.

When I received a call from my oldest daughter I rushed down to the centre to find my two girls very upset.

The police were also very good with them.

A 44-year-old Pole was taken into custody and appeared in court the following day, March 20.

He pleaded not guilty and we were told my daughter would have to appear in court on April 7.

She was frightened, but on April 5 the man changed his plea.

The man’s visa was up three days later, but because of the charge, he was allowed to stay.

His next court appearance was on May 17, but this was deferred until June 14.

Now it has been deferred again until December 14.

My daughters are so upset at this.

My 13-year-old is depressed and has been off school for a number of weeks.

She is not going out of the house and refuses to go shopping in the town.

I had to take her to another town to buy clothes as she knows the man is still in the area.

What I don’t understand is why the case keeps being deferred.

The man has admitted the crime, so why was he not detained in a hostel for immigrants as his visa has expired?

Instead he is allowed to walk about freely.

Meanwhile my daughter is suffering.

I see the tears in her eyes every time the case is deferred.

When will she be able to get on with her life? — Mother.

If she becomes Dundee West’s MSP, I hope she does more than she has done for the people of Lochee as a councillor.

Shops are closing, drugs are readily available and decent people can’t walk about without being confronted by drunks and druggies. — E. D.

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With empty units also in the Wellgate Centre and in the Murraygate and High Street, does Dundee and its hinterland have the population to support this expansion? — Puzzled.

We would always use sight of it to get away from the “Are we nearly there yet?” calls from the back seat.

I think we had just seen the Wizard of Oz when we noticed the tree. Our daughters have grown up as the tree has decayed, bits falling off it through the years.

No doubt it provided a living to all sorts of bugs and beasties. Such is life. — Old Oak.

Birmingham in general, and Longbridge in particular, have been synonymous with MG for nearly 70 years.

But when the car company collapsed last year with the loss of 6000 jobs, the nail was firmly driven into the coffin of this part of Britain’s industrial heritage.

However, Longbridge still lives on — 7000 miles away.

Machine tools from the plant have been dismantled and shipped in 4500 containers and are now being slowly reassembled in the city of Nanjing on the east coast of China.

While the Birmingham car plant lies derelict, China is poised to take on the global car giants in the same way it has come to dominate the production of textiles, computer parts, steel and circuit boards.

This is another slap in the face for British workers and if we continue down the globalisation path, Britain shall eventually close. — George Aimer, Kinghorne Road, Dundee.

The truth is that Churchill appreciated the plight of Dundee citizens and defended them from criticism by Westminster colleagues.

During his time as MP for the city, Churchill was variously President of the Board of Trade, Home Secretary, First Lord of the Admiralty, Secretary of State for War, and Secretary of State for the Colonies.

Dundee has a unique link with this historic figure, unmatched anywhere in Scotland, and we should exploit it. A statue of Winston Churchill as he was at that time, with appropriate history, could prove quite an attraction. — Peter Donaldson, Findhorn Street, Dundee.

It was said it wasn’t true Churchhill despised Dundonians. His wife Clem was Scottish and was a member of the Ogilvy clan from Cortachy. Could it be all the bad things he was said to have said about Dundonians is propaganda?

Did he really behave like a huffy bairn when he was dumped as the city’s MP? He isn’t here to answer his critics.

However, I was disappointed to hear on the radio Dundonians being referred to as Dundeeans. — Dundonian.