The majority of the patrons have problems regarding hygiene, literacy and manners.

The amount of nicotine-stained, obviously unwashed hands I come into contact with when money is exchanged at the till is disgusting.

The amount of money spent on teas and coffees would be better spent on a bar of soap.

Although we provide utensils to pick up rolls, hot food, etc, bare hands are still order of the day by the great unwashed.

The café is self-service and we are not waitresses and dirty trays should be put back on the tray trolleys, not left on tables.

The staff at the coffee shop are hard working, decent people trying to make a living to support our families.

Please remember this the next time an insult, complaint or any other type of verbal abuse is spat out.

Please report any complaints to management. Management might just listen to customers, because they sure don’t listen to the brow-beaten staff. — Coffee Shop Worker.

There are clear markings painted on the road surface, but as there are invariably queues of traffic at the junction and drivers may not be aware that the middle and right-hand lanes are for drivers heading for Kingsway.

The authorities should consider a “get in lane” sign at the side of the road. The cost would be minimal. — Bellman.

Drivers in this area are lazy and constantly flout the law. The main problem is at roundabouts. Lorries don’t seem to realise they have to give way to vehicles coming from the right. They charge on as if the roundabout didn’t exist.

Also lazy drivers simply can’t be bothered waiting in filter lanes at circles. They constantly drive knowingly in the wrong lane, simply because they would have to queue. They endanger other road users with their laziness, incompetence and arrogance.

It is time something was done — maybe traffic lights at busy circles or more of a police presence. — Newcomer.

They have no right to put the public at risk.

It’s supposed to be prison not go-as-you-please. Prisoners are there to be punished.

The situation is a shambles. I don’t feel safe in this country as there is no law. — Disgusted.

The way things are going it will be illegal to put them in prisons.

Once again the victims of crime are ignored. — Fair’s Fair.

This would rule out farm workers like myself who use one to control the ever-increasing rabbit population and other vermin, which we are obliged to do under legislation.

Mr Sheridan also says it would be OK to store airguns at local clubs for field sports. Again this cannot happen because of insurance problems.

All responsible airgun users are in favour of the law being tightened up but a blanket ban is not the way to go.

The authorities should licence these like shotguns and rifles. — Duncan Cowie, Arbroath.

Successive Tory and Labour governments have cut back on defence.

As for a terrorist attack, it could happen whether we are independent or in the Union. — Dryburgh Reader, Dundee.

Isn’t this what governments have done — closing down our industries in Scotland and disbanding The Black Watch regiment, while our fishing industries have been practically wiped out because of the EU?

And now plans to export nuclear business threatens our country, by using it as a dustbin, depositing waste around our coast.

Scotland suffers from earth tremors and who is to say those couldn’t cause damage to the nuclear waste buckets buried in our seas.

Nobody wants to be out of a job, but surely, when our safety is threatened, we should not be promoting more nuclear energy. — Mrs M. Sutherland, Perth.

Tony Blair and Gordon Brown are too busy cosying up to middle England to worry about Scotland.

We need a powerful parliament that focuses on bringing prosperity to our country and the only way we are going to achieve that is with independence.

Politico is an example of someone who has been fooled by the scaremongering tactics of London Labour. — Observer.

First, the demon destroys the livelihoods of over 1000 people who work for, or supply and service, NCR.

Now, the demon’s baleful intent is to destroy the Botanic Garden — a sanctuary of calm and beauty and a centre in plant research, visited by tourists from all over the world.

I wish I could afford to bring in an exorcist, but council tax had put paid to that. — R. L. S.

A pal says I’m talking nonsense. — Reader, Dundee.

[Jane Wyman married Myron Futterman on June 29, 1937, and they divorced on November 1, 1938. It has been rumored that on April 8, 1933, she had married Ernest Eugene Wyman.

In 1938, Wyman co-starred with Ronald Reagan in Brother Rat, and its sequel Brother Rat and a Baby (1940). The two were married (her second (or third) marriage, and his first) on January 26, 1940, and divorced on June 28, 1948.

She and Reagan had three children; Maureen, Michael (adopted), and Christine.

Following their divorce, Wyman married bandleader Frederick Karger on November 1, 1952. They divorced in December 1955. They later remarried on March 11, 1961, and divorced a second time in 1965. Wyman never remarried.

Reagan married actress Nancy Davis on March 4, 1952. Their daughter Patti was born on October 21 of the same year. In 1958, they had a second child, Ron.]

Someone is going to have an accident if not already. — Concerned Gran.

[A spokesman for the Wellgate Centre said, “The toilets in question are, I believe, the temporary toilets adjacent to Bhs on level two of the Centre.

Notwithstanding the fact they are temporary toilets, we would not allow toilets to be open in which there was no water to wash your hands with, nor would we allow the flooring to become dangerous and dirty.

Our policy is to provide clean and adequate facilities for our customers at all times.

To this end, we have just re-opened our newly refurbished toilets on level two of the centre, which I am sure the letter writer will find meet her expectations.”]

However, councillors often cannot even agree, so there isn’t anything perfect about these decisions.

An example was Lidl in Lochee where the planning department was against it, but was overruled by councillors. — Craigiebank.

I telephoned the store but, surprise, it had not been handed in.

We’re all a bit pushed at this time of year, but I was brought up not to take anything that doesn’t belong to you. — Poor But Honest OAP.