WHAT IS the world coming to? Cries across Dundee went out for the blood of those responsible for the attacks on animals at Camperdown.
Not as much fuss was kicked up for the elderly lady who was mugged for her pension. This kind of injustice goes on daily.
We need to get our priorities right. — Hilltown Hawk.
No rights
EVERY TIME I read a paper or watch TV news there are stories about murders, abuse to children and animals, muggings, break-ins, people assaulted for no reason. The list is endless.
People who do these horrible things don’t deserve any rights.
People are not afraid of going to jail or detention. The treatment they get there is like a holiday camp with TVs, computers, pool tables, three healthy meals a day plus they can get hold of drugs. — Sick of Crime.
Break-in
I APPEAL to whoever broke into my Camperdown, Dundee, house on August 8.
The purse that was taken out of my bag had a picture of my grandson in it.
It is one of the few I have, and was taken in Edinburgh's Sick Children’s Hospital. — Pauline C.
Drivers flouting rules
AS A regular user of Bell Street multi-storey car park, Dundee, I’ve noticed an increasing number of cars parked in the area in front of the Burnside Property offices in Dudhope Crescent.
Now at least three cars are regularly parking on the grass too.
The area has double yellow lines yet these people are untroubled by traffic wardens.
It’s annoying to be paying around £5 a day to use the car park while these drivers are flouting rules.
Can the Tele print a photo? — Parking Mad, Arbroath.
Better than kids
I HAD to reply to disgruntled Granny. If a dog is well behaved there is no problem with it running around a park as long as the owner picks up after it. This is more than most kids/parents do.
I am fed up of being the one to pick up sweet wrappers, juice bottles, etc that kids leave behind. Many dogs are better behaved than many kids.
I am not a child hater. I have two of my own. — Dog Owning Mum, Douglas, Dundee.
Reunion rumours
WE HAVE heard so many rumours about Poor Souls, a Dundee band from the sixties, reuniting.
Stories going around say one of the former members has left Canada and taken up residence back in Dundee. Do any readers know anything about this? — Fans, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Poles taking Dundee jobs
AS YET another Dundee factory closes its doors (IBP Delta) with the loss of 70 jobs, I wonder if any politician can explain why thousands of Poles have been allowed to settle here and take up our jobs?
It’s ironic they flood our jobs market and yet so much work is taken out of Dundee to go to places like Poland. — Disgusted.
Send Tony to Antarctica
I DO agree with Fair Comment, who states that Tony Blair is better at “globe-trotting” than Alex Salmond.
With this in mind, I feel that Tony’s next posting should be to Antarctica to see at first hand the effects of global warming.
Perhaps a five-year assignment. — Scottus.
Sick joke
TO SAY that Tony Blair brought peace to Northern Ireland has to be a sick joke.
All he did was give murderers, thugs and bigots a nice little earner.
The people won’t see a difference. The terrorist gangs now deal in drugs, extortion, beatings and murder. — Fair’s Fair.
60 bins on pavement
Bins sitting out in Lyon Street three days before collection.
I HAVE read the letters in the Tele about wheelie bins in Dundee.
Recently I walked along Lyon Street from Albert Street to Dens Road and I counted 60 wheelie bins.
The same applies to a lesser degree in Arthurstone Terrace and Cunningham Street.
A resident told me the bins are situated on the street permanently. — Observer.
Rubbish dumped
DUNDEE CITY COUNCIL should stop charging for the uplift of unwanted household items such as chairs, beds, wardrobes etc.
My back green is strewn with these items.
As a council tax payer I feel this should be a free service. — P.W.
Well done, Olympia
MY GRANDCHILDREN visited me from Texas and asked to go to Olympia as they remembered it from their last visit.
It did not disappoint — staff were very helpful even under pressure with school holidays.
Well done to everyone. — Grateful Gran.
PS. One small niggle — why can’t people use cards to pay for lessons? I was caught out with this out-of-date method.
Pays tax
I WRITE on behalf of my mother-in-law, who is on Disability Living Allowance after suffering a stroke which left her in a wheelchair.
She would like letter writer Carol Ann Symes to know she pays council tax (£18 per month). — Mrs. T. Stewart, Fleming Gardens South, Dundee.
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