Encouraging children to drink water during class time is a great idea but not all schools will allow children to have a toilet visit outwith the allocated toilet breaks (which usually fall within lunch and break times).

Following the article in the Tele stating that the NHS advise children to go to the toilet as soon as they need to reduce the rising numbers of children who suffer from Urinary Tract Infections, I would urge the schools to allow children to visit the toilet as and when required.

Schools do not have a break in the afternoon and if they are encouraged to drink water in the class they should not have to “hold it in until they get home”.

I see this as an infringement of their human rights. — Louise Murray.

The type of BB gun mentioned is not an airgun, but is classed as a toy.

The current clamour for more Scottish-based firearms law driven by headline grabbing politicians, totally ignores the fact that the vast majority of airgun crimes are committed by people who are already banned access by either age or criminal conviction. — M.S.

Unlike Western countries, terror cannot be fought with terror. We need to win with compassion, love and forgiveness. The best way to defeat the Islamic terrorists is to bring moderate Muslims back to our ethos.”

This was written the day after terrorists murdered more than 40 people in Hyderabad and shows great compassion. Perhaps we can learn from it. — George Aimer, Kinghorne Road, Dundee.

I was informed that my note was fraudulent. I explained I had just withdrawn it from the Clydesdale ATM and knew it was not a fake.

The girl behind the bar then checked with her manager before telling me my note had the wrong watermark. As they had no way of proving it was fake I got back my note and spent it the next night at Cineworld. — Anon.

I have been told unless she is on Income Support, Job Seekers’ Allowance or gets tax credit, housing benefit, is over 60 or an immigrant, then she is not entitled.

So much for Dundee City Council doing lots to help young disabled people become independent.

She cannot enjoy any of the leisure facilities with her carer unless I pay the full amount for both. — Parent.

I was employed all my working life as was my husband. I get the state pension and a works pension.

I was paying £88 a month Council Tax and was due to receive a pension of £16 a week from my deceased husband’s pension.

Within a week I received a letter stating a new Council Tax payment of £96 a month, which seems so unfair. — Poor Me.

Some may work in the berry fields but thousands are now employed in manufacturing and thousands more on building sites.

Even my local video store employs three. Don’t tell me some young Dundee lass wouldn’t do that job.

Of course Dundee people move out and seek employment, but they move in small numbers, not in millions swamping cities that barely have enough employment for their own.

People of Dundee, Glasgow, Portsmouth, Southampton and Bristol should let the Labour Party, who let this fiasco go on, know how they feel at the next election. —T. Gardner.

They are taking jobs people were already doing and in some cases the jobs they get are not even on offer to the British citizen.

There are agencies and sections of agencies which specifically deal with Poles.

A lot of people say that it's all about cheap labour but this is not always the case. I know of a company that pays an agency £15 an hour while the Polish person is only paid the minimum wage.

I also know of a company in Dundee which employs a Latvian to operate and design their website. He does this while living in Latvia.

If things keep going the way they are, then very few industries will be safe.

Arms Wide Open also claims Poles contribute to the local economy, but most send their money home.

And what good is the economy to the people who have lost their job and they can't find a job with decent pay? –— Pamela Stoneman, St Nicholas Place, Dundee.

The area within the pend and the attached rear to these premises has become a dumping ground for fly tippers.

I have contacted the council over the 18 years I have lived here on numerous occasions with little or no success.

The problem has now become so bad I begin to worry for the safety of the residents. — Tele Reader.

[We sent a photgrapher to take a picture of the mess.]

Publicans have served up misery and liver disease for too long.

Supermarkets with their cheap drink are a magnet to impoverished people with alcohol problems. They, too, need curbed. — Jericho.