It is sad a small number of post offices in Dundee will have to shut, but can anyone tell me what the alternative is?
I don’t use a post office every day — nor do most people.
Most people have access to banks and more and more have computers, meaning post offices aren’t as important as they once were.
The facts are that as fewer and fewer people are using the post offices, the Government has to spend even more money subsidising them.
I want the Government to fund important services that people actually need. — Real Dundee.
Spend money helping children
Am I the only one sick and tired learning about heroin addiction? This self-induced affliction masquerades as an illness in the minds of some.
Leukaemia is an illness, and so is Crohn’s disease and the unfortunate sufferers of those conditions, some of them children, did nothing to deserve their plight.
In this day people would have to be idiotic not to know that taking heroin and the like leads to sorry self-inflicted misery, yet the taxpaying public is supposed to open their hearts and their wallets.
The people who do not deserve the misery are the children born, and in some cases, reared by the addicts. The addicts must carry the full responsibility for their situation.
By all means help them to help themselves, but as a society let’s put the real innocents first, that being their kids.
And when the police and Government talk about “going after” the dealers, why not concentrate on the real criminals? The rich dealers with serious cash, and their accountants and bankers, who launder the six-figure proceeds. — Graham Reid, Dundee.
Get priorities right
I have been reading the stories about drug abuse in the Tele — dealing with the problems and the heartache it causes individuals, families, in fact all aspects of the community.
However, I do find it strange that our Government appears to be doing more to wean us off cigarettes than illegal drugs.
So come on our MSPs and MPs, get your priorities right and get our society back to where it belongs. — Concerned.
Chase drug dealers
It is about time the powers that be are out chasing drug dealers and leaving smokers alone. Smokers don’t go about mugging and killing because of their habit.
Brothels run by foreigners should also be dealt with. — Live and Let Live.
No help with bills
Recently my partner was made redundant. He followed all the steps to sign on at the JobCentre and he is hunting for work every day.
After three weeks of no employment, he has been given one day’s worth of money, £8.
He asked for help with bills, etc., but as our mortgage is in my name, they won’t give him a penny.
I am enraged as there are people out there who have never worked a day yet get every benefit under the sun.
Why should people who make no effort whatsoever in finding a job get their rent and council tax pay for them?
My partner and I have worked most of our lives and we don’t get any help when we are in difficulties. — Angry House Owner, Dundee.
Still waiting for luggage
Like the golfers from the Fort Hotel whose luggage was lost, as reported in the Tele, we, too, were on that flight from Cyprus and still have not received our luggage despite being told by Thomas Cook at Glasgow Airport it has definitely been sent to us.
This was supposed to be a pick me up for me after spending two weeks in hospital but it has only raised my blood pressure. — Angry, Broughty Ferry, Dundee.
Housing debt
It’s wrong to expect Westminster to clear Dundee’s housing debt.
Local government issues are a matter devolved to the SNP Government in Edinburgh, which is probably why the SNP decided to make a cast iron promise to Dundonians last year that they would provide the money to clear it.
Funnily enough, I can’t see any sign of this commitment in the glossy literature that has fallen through my letterbox of late. — Holyrood Watcher.
School closures
I’d like to thank Dundee City Council’s Director of Education for retiring.
The outgoing director has, in her time in Dundee, overseen numerous school closures to the detriment of our children’s education, low morale within the teaching staff and appalling educational attainment levels. We can only hope this will be a new start for the city. — Allan Petrie, Blacklock Crescent, Dundee.
Fight song
During the 1960s, Billy Cotton’s Band Show was on the radio on Sundays at lunchtime.
His male lead singer Alan Breeze frequently sang “The Kid’s Last Fight”.
Can any musical readers tell me: Who was the Kid? Who was his opponent? What was the date of the fight and did the kid die? — Music Lover.
Different approach
I recall a fire some months ago in Tay Street, Monifieth.
At the time, Tayside Fire and Rescue caused great inconvenience to the population evacuating them from their homes because propane gas canisters required to be cooled for 24 hours to ensure they were safe.
At a fire on May 27, at Balhungie Farm, just east of Monifieth, Tayside Fire and Rescue said they applied a jet of water to propane gas cylinders to keep them cool. However, they withdrew after only 12 hours with no reference to danger to residents in the vicinity and allowed investigators to examine the scene.
I’m confused by the different approach to the same potential danger. — Hot Spot.
Time to build our own Eurovote bloc
Why don’t Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland contest the Eurovision Song Contest as separate nations? Then they could vote for each other’s songs.
This is clearly what’s happening with many of the Eastern European and Scandinavian entrants. — Dryburgh Reader.
Don’t knows should lose licence
Taxi drivers who say they don’t know where a road is, ought to lose their licences. — Weary.
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