It is true that the old crumbling buildings had to go, but memories of the people who filled these old houses seemed to be wiped out.

Why couldn’t the academics go to the periphery of the city?

It all began 60 years ago when the population was gradually moved out from the areas where generations had lived and worked and died.

For all the braw buildings, these areas are dead now, especially at night.

Every generation leaves its mark. Will these buildings stand the test of time? — Westender OAP.

The Unionist parties have long known that EU membership was fraught with policies that work against Scottish and UK interests.

Now Alex Salmond, leader of the SNP, confirms his wish to have Scotland at the heart of Europe.

When will our politicians realise further integration is not what the people want?

Perhaps Mr Salmond thinks the Scottish public won’t notice when the EU ignore his pleas for them to fund the restoration of the Scottish fishing and shipbuilding industries and refuse point blank to allow Scottish regiments the opt-out from a commitment to a European army. — Non Sense.

We have a statue of Admiral Duncan, who I had never heard of until the monument appeared.

We have verses written by McGonagall on the walk along Riverside. Yet most people in Dundee laugh at him and class him as the “village idiot”.

We have Desperate Dan at Boots and a dragon in the High Street.

Then there are also all these pieces of metal that blow in the wind along Riverside Drive.

What a waste of money. — Margaret Stewart, Kirkconnel Terrace, Dundee.

It was the Dundee workers’ votes that made Churchill a very successful Liberal candidate.

I never had any time for Churchill’s politics, but nevertheless, I am aware of the fact that he did not create the harsh economic conditions and the very low wages in the Dundee jute mills.

“Oh, dear me” was a sigh which punctuated the Dundee folk song in relation to work long before Churchill came to the city.

It went:-

Oh, dear me, the mull’s gaein fest,

Fair we shifters canna get a rest,

Shifting bobbins coorse and fine,

Wha wad work for twa and nine?

Churchill certainly did not help the workers in Dundee, but neither did any other successful candidate.

What did Edwin Scrymgeour do for Dundee after defeating Churchill in 1922?

So why blame Churchill for all Dundee’s troubles?

The real blame lies with the people who vote for politicians like him. — Ron Smith, Dundee.

So I never heard him saying what he was supposed to have said about Dundee.

I’m sure many Dundonians could tell me if it was truth or propaganda? — Keep The Kettle Bilin’.

Now that the smoking ban has turned publicans into law enforcers, will they be banishing drunks from their premises? I think not.

This is a case of double standards by the health police. — Ex-Labour Voter.

Abertay Housing got Brown Construction in to landscape the gardens, but they are now knee-high in weeds.

I have contacted Abertay twice and they have told me Brown Construction are planning to resolve this problem in the near future.

Abertay take £1.80 a week for garden upkeep, yet the Grampian Close gardens are in this mess.

My daughter visits and she has nowhere to play. I can’t hang my washing out as it is getting tangled in the weeds. — Irate Tenant.

I watched as many cars and pedestrians swerved around him as he was sitting in the road.

It appals me that somebody could leave such an unwell animal and not at least phone the SSPCA if they didn’t want to take the animal home.

I took him home and the SSPCA came and said the only thing they could do was put him down. — Disgusted Animal Lover.

Just plant grass on them and never mind cutting it.

The people who visit Dundee are not likely to think less of us because of long grass. — Menzieshill.

It’s a nightmare to get up and down that road, with road humps as well.

You never see police or wardens there. — Law Abiding Mororist.

Four months on, I am still waiting for the disabled signs, despite numerous calls to Dundee City Council and my councillor. — Cheesed Off.