This was a very traumatic experience for our son but our sincere thanks go to the bus driver.

Mr Edward Selerowicz contacted the police and arranged for the other passengers to be transferred to another bus before bringing our son home.

His care and kindness were much appreciated and he is a credit to Travel Dundee.

Thanks to his actions and CCTV footage we understand the culprit was apprehended. — Grateful Parents.

What bill? Dundonians pay their local tax as do people in Angus and Fife. Each council then adds the money to its main revenue from the Scottish Executive to provide services. People in Angus and Fife do not cost the city anything.

When Dundee had control of areas such as Invergowrie etc were the services any better or, allowing for inflation, the local tax lower? Not that I can remember. The only effect was a reduction in services and an increase in local tax to the people of Angus and Perthshire.

When these areas left Dundee was there a cut back in services or did this cause a huge rise in council tax? Not that I can remember. All I can remember is Labour councillors in the city whining about not having enough money to spend.

They should have been looking at running a tighter ship. Where else in Britain today can a workforce be guaranteed a no redundancy policy from their employers?

Drawing The Line writes about people from Angus using facilities such as Discovery Point in Dundee as if this was a bad thing.

A city like Dundee is a regional centre and will always attract people from round about to work and for leisure. This is what happens to every city in the world and this in turn creates employment, creates businesses and consequently more revenue. It is why Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen are booming and why cities all over the world are expanding.

When Tesco built its huge store on the Kingsway it was not just looking for customers from Dundee. Likewise an efficiently-run council should be cashing in on places like Discovery Point, Verdant Works, Mills Observatory, Ice Arena, Olympia, etc. If it is not able to do this, the answer is not to give it power over an even greater area.

Also in the same letters page a reader said Dundee needs park and ride facilities but cannot have them because of “tight” boundaries and calls for an expansion of the city.

Again I ask, why? Edinburgh has park and ride facilities — and they are in Fife. There are plenty of places for such facilities on Dundee’s boundaries just a lack of vision or will.

Honestly, the solutions to all Dundee’s ills do not lie with expanding its boundaries against the wishes of others. If the city addresses the reasons why Dundonians are deserting and becomes well-run and gives value for money people will want to return to be part of it success.

As a council taxpayer living and working in Dundee, I hope our councillors stop trying to blame others for their own shortcomings and brainwashing their citizens into thinking all will be well if they had control over the surrounding areas. Somehow I doubt it. — Proud Dundonian.

The member of the Combined Ex-Services Association who told me to leave the dais was the same person who, after the dais party had all left for the City Square, spoke to a council official about a unit that was still marching.

By the time this message was passed on, the civic party was in a position where there were several thousand people between themselves and the dais.

It would have been physically impossible for us to have turned back and make it in time.

I am astonished and disappointed that after many months of careful and detailed planning by the Combined Ex-Services Association, with the full support of council staff, that M. Herd would wish to lay the blame for this with the council.

The Veterans’ Day events in Dundee were a huge success enjoyed by many thousands. The day itself was a wonderful advert for this city and its people.

I think it is a real shame this is being spoilt locally by a spat over what was an oversight by the Combined Ex-Services Association themselves. — Lord Provost John R. Letford.

Is there no one out there to call a halt to power politics driving the world to disaster?

It seems the G8, United Nations and the international community have little or no control over the many vested interests, more caring for narrow national affairs, than caring for life and limb.

The UN was set up all those years ago after many of us put everything we had on the line to bring back sanity, but it seems the lessons of yesteryear have been forgotten and all our efforts apparently have been of no good.

The attitude of Bush and Blair does nothing for the authority of the UN.

The time has long passed when ordinary people demand the UN be given the power it was originally intended to have plus finance and resources to police the world. — Mr W. McCormack, Symers Street, Dundee.

What is it going to look like, and have the people living in the area been consulted?

I for one am fed up with the sights and sounds of Islam.

Let us, for once, think about the impact religious buildings have on the indigenous population. — A. Theist.

I recall a forerunner — Charlie Drake, who also insisted on performing all his own stunts.

I recollect back in early 60s Charlie jumped through a window and did not seem to recover.

Michael sacrificed himself for his art. He had to have a hip-replacement due to one demanding stunt. Stars who go all-out to entertain certainly earn a badge of honour in my estimation. — J. I. Matthew.

I lived in a tenement near Lochee railway bridge. The pletties were like ice sculptures. Children were able to slide down the stairs on their sledges.

Remember there was no central heating in those days.

My boss at the “Sosh” (Dundee Co-Operative Society) skied to work in the Hawkhill from Stobswell. — Alfie Bremmer, Lochee Road, Dundee.