How can we plan our future? How can we prepare our families for the move to Livingston if we don’t know if it is worth considering?

All shop floor workers have been briefed and consulted and are aware of what they can expect.

However, the management team, which Tesco expects to carry on motivating their soon-to-be-redundant staff, is being treated with disregard.

So, come on Tesco, give us the info and let our families make the decision forced on them. — Worried Wife.

Tesco has shown it does not care about the staff there or the people and communities of Dundee.

Tesco controls over 30% of the grocery market in the UK. In 2006, the chain announced over £2 billion in profits.

Even with this obscene amount, Tesco thinks it appropriate to make loyal and hard-working Dundee workers redundant.

Growing evidence indicates that Tesco’s success and continued expansion is partly based on practices that are having serious consequences for small shops, local communities, farmers, workers worldwide and the environment.

I urge Dundonians to speak to their local MPs and MSPs about this and ask what they are going to do. I feel new laws must be brought in to control the power of supermarkets.

My family and friends have not shopped at Tesco for some time and appeal to other Dundonians to do likewise.

People power is the best way to show Tesco we will not tolerate being treated with contempt. — Every Little Hurts, Dundee.

I’m sure there would be plenty of other supermarkets willing to fill the void. — Disgusted Dundonian.

IF THE people of Dundee elect me as their MSP, I pledge to give £10,000 to local charities every year.

By letting me join the gravy train I’ll be well able to afford it. — Edward Bignell, Buttars Road, Dundee.

THE LATEST “storm in a tea cup” row, involving Mrs Shimi, merely confirms my belief that attempts at petty point scoring are her substitute for genuine political debate. — Scottus.

I AM pleased to see that a massive majority (96%) of the almost 500 Tele readers who voted have called Councillor Jill Shimi’s bluff and put her party on notice that they cannot expect to walk May’s elections in Dundee West.

Councillor Joe FitzPatrick worked very hard during the campaign to “Save the Scottish Regiments” and The Black Watch in particular.

Conversely, Labour politicians in Dundee did little to help save the regiment from losing its status.

The elections will be an ideal time for Dundee voters to show Mrs Shimi and her colleagues the door. — Jeff Duncan, Campaign to Reinstate Our Army Regiment, PO Box 10083, Dundee, DD3 9WW.

I WAS very interested to read the comments regarding the two Dundee councillors and the row over one of them offering severance payment to charity.

Liberal Democrats Councillor Fraser McPherson said that something should be done.

Is this the same person who was criticised by a sheriff about his “unconvincing” evidence during a trial?

If anyone should be looked at by the Electoral Commission I suggest it is this councillor, whom I am amazed has the bare faced cheek to criticise anyone. — Watcher.

When we get off the bus at the last stop in Turnberry Avenue, we have to walk quarter-of-a-mile to our houses in Dalmahoy Drive.

That takes 10 minutes, maybe more.

Some of the people here are old, others disabled and they find it difficult to walk that distance.

As winter is approaching, snow and ice on the pavements and roads will make it even more dangerous for them.

I sent two petitions to the bus company in Dock Street asking for another stop. I have had no answer.

The Transport Manager believes there are enough stops, but the residents in Turnberry don’t agree. — J. Cooney, Dalmahoy Drive, Ardler, Dundee.

As I was passing another car with a disabled badge I saw it had a penalty notice.

The man who was issuing the notices told me it was because the driver had not paid £1.50. He, or she, would be fined £10, if paid straight away.

After my appointment I counted four cars with no disabled badges parked in disabled bays and no penalty notices.

Where was the man issuing penalty notices? — Curious.

Yet again my mum’s grave at Birkhill Cemetery has been targeted by thieves, and solar lamps have been removed.

It is getting to the point that we are dreading going to her grave for fear of what we will find next. — Elizabeth Petrie.

You can’t walk for long without being accosted by someone asking for spare change. What impression does this give to tourists? — City Centre Resident.

Even as a non-smoker, I feel this was a ridiculous petition and that sense was shown by the Public Petitions Committee. — Jimmy Borland, Marryat Terrace, Dundee.

If 468 staff owe £750,000, this means that the average debt works out at about £1600. At £3 a week it will take over 10 years to pay the money which is owed.— Menzieshill Reader.

This means that the ditty every Dundee child used to know is still relevant:—

Rabbie Burns was born in Ayr,

Now he stands in the Albert Square;

If you want to see him there,

Take the bus and pay your fare.

— Memory Man.

Should they agree, the production team and stars will fly to Europe to record this episode.

Not being brain dead, I have never watched this soap, but isn’t it good to see the BBC protecting the hard-earned money of the licence payers? — Scarrab.