I reply to the Tele article on Friday relating to the rising cost of student debt. I was once a student and enjoyed an extremely healthy expendable budget. Dundee University Student Association president Milan Bogunovic’s comments about some students “forced to live on just £10 per week” is utter nonsense.
Students in this town are probably one of the main reasons Dundee has so many nightclubs and bars. They spend a great deal more than £10 drinking.
The weekend starts on a Tuesday for most students, hence the nightclubs in Dundee being open seven days a week.
Can I suggest Mr Bogunovic actually spends a week with his students and sees exactly how they spend their cash. —Barry Boon.
Help transform garden
I write in response to a letter published in the Tele regarding the Community Garden on Dundee Law.
Currently there is a group of people working towards the development of a Community Garden on the Law and we are very keen to welcome new members.
Anyone who is interested and feels that he or she has something positive to contribute to this project, is invited to attend our next meeting on Tuesday, August 12 at 5.30 pm in the Highway Youth & Community Centre, Hilltown.
For further information please contact Margaret on 01382 901365. —Margaret Wemyss.
Travellers’ mess nothing compared to Lochee multis
Following the article on travellers at the Technology Park, certainly they will make a mess, but come to Adamson/Elders Court, Lochee, and see the mess made by drug takers who have the amenities but choose to throw their garbage out windows, onto the street, toss syringes and drug paraphernalia anywhere. — Elders Court Tenant, Lochee.
‘Poor visitors’
Regarding the article about members of the travelling community camped on a field at the Technology Park.
What a burden the poor visitors to Dundee must endure at this site.
Thankfully the visitors have been spared the unmerciful sight of cigarette butt mountains in downtown Dundee, which is a common sight for many people who venture there daily.
We can all rest easy now Councillor Duncan (Lochee Ward) is keeping an eye on the situation.
It’s a pity he couldn’t focus his eye on his own ward, where junkies have laid siege to Elders/Adamson court multis, practically camping there for the past fortnight.
They are openly taking drugs on stairwells, in the forecourt, even in the children’s play area.
But, I suppose it’s OK, as visitors to Dundee will not see this from the Kingsway or the City Centre. — Adamson Court Tenant.
Choc disaster
Having read about Dr. Sheppard from Redcastle Primary School in Suffolk giving out chocolate to pupils who do well in lessons and saying he hopes other schools would follow this lead.
I think this has got to be a joke. How can this be justified giving children chocolate for doing lessons? There should be no such bribes made.
Children are children and if they’re asked to do school work then it should be done. The Government goes on so much about children being over-weight. Do they want to encourage healthy eating or not? — Mrs Kim Williamson, Dundee.
Shop workers need protection
I read with interest the article about the Spar shop workers and what they are going through with drug users.
I work in a shop in Kingsway East Retail Park and we have the same problem.
Not a day goes by without us having to follow drug users around the store. We have been verbally and physically abused, threatened and had our cars damaged.
It’s the same old story, when the police do arrive the culprits are long gone.
What kind of society do we live in when ordinary people have to go to work each day to put up with this?
It’s about time something was done to protect the honest hardworking people of the city. We are the victims here not them. — Reader.
Labour problems
Labour politicians may wonder why their party is so unpopular.
Men and women are arrested for the smallest offence, while big-time criminals go free.
New Labour is almost weekly bringing in Draconian laws against the nation’s people.
Since the party was elected in 1997 it has alienated the people who supported the party. It is heavy-handed on single mums, widows etc. who earn a few pounds more than they should, yet millionaires pay no tax by sending their money to offshore havens.
We have for a long time been living in a Police State. — Republican Labour.
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