Today's News | Sport | Features | Email Contacts | Letters | Just The Job | Welcome Home | The Tele | D C Thomson | Annuals | Subscriptions | Old Dundee

Headlines
Sport Stories
Get the Tele from...

Letters - 02 October 2008
Wits end after two years of loud music
I LIVE in the Ardler area of Dundee and for the past two years, I have had to endure loud music from a neighbour.

I have contacted my housing association and done as they have requested and written reports week in week out, contacted the police and the Action Noise Team.

They have attended to the complaints when I have called, but because the music has been turned down to a tolerable level, nothing gets done. What inevitably happens is, as soon as they have gone, the music goes up again and I’m back on the phone.

It’s affecting myself and my daughter, who is suffering at school due to be being woken at unsociable hours. Why can’t the equipment be removed when I am continually having to complain?

Housing keep telling me to write reports, call the police and I have done all this. Surely after two years something can be done? I am sure I am not the only person in this situation in Dundee and I wonder if any other people have had more success in getting something done.

I don’t know who else to turn to for help. I cannot suffer this any longer.

Why is it that innocent people have to tolerate this from anti-social tenants? — Tired and Stressed.

St Fergus aims to step back in time

Members of the pupil council, parent council and staff with a mini-version of what the exhibition will look like.

THE NEXT event at Dundee’s St Fergus PS 40th anniversary year of celebrations is an exhibition of memorabilia in November.

This is being organised jointly by the school’s parent council (the St Fergus Partner Partnership), pupil council and staff.

Anyone who has items of St Fergus memorabilia (photographs, old items of uniform, jotters, books, newsletters, etc.) which they could lend for the exhibition, or any interesting stories to tell, is asked to contact the school on 01382 436493.

A Thanksgiving Mass will also be held on November 20 in St Leonard and St Fergus Church, celebrated by Bishop Vincent Logan, to which all are welcome. — Staff and Pupils, St Fergus PS.

Supermarkets should utilise Tesco site
I KEEP reading letters complaining that Tesco has chosen to close its store in Lochee.

What I can’t believe is the lack of initiative being shown by other supermarket retailers.

For a long time these other supermarkets (such as Asda, Morrison, etc.) have complained about the so-called stranglehold Tesco holds over the shopping sector in Dundee, but there is a golden opportunity for them to take over an existing store with an existing customer base.

It’s not even as if a new store would need to be constructed — all they would need to do is move into the existing premises once Tesco close their doors in February. — Curious.

Iron lady
CAN THE Tele settle an argument?

What became of Israel’s Prime Minister, Mrs Golda Meir?

A friend claims she was assassinated. I’m sure this is not true. — Curious, Dundee.

[Golda Meir was elected as Israel’s Prime Minister in 1969 after serving as Minister of Labour and Foreign Minister. She was described as being the Iron Lady many years before the phrase became associated with Lady Thatcher.

She died of cancer in 1978 in Jerusalem, at the age of 80.]

Appeal for return of toys
MY 12V battery powered Lightning McQueen and my Disney Cars scooter were taken from outside my home in Hazel Drive, Dundee, last week.

I am four years old and cry myself to sleep at night.

If anyone knows where they might be, could you please return them?

There is a reward for the return of these greatly-missed toys. — Broken Hearted Four-Year-Old.

Sale request
WOULD THE lady who purchased a food processor at Tayport car boot sale on September 28, phone 01382 736184 as I forgot to give you the attachments. — Susan Kirkaldy, Redcastle Crescent, Broughty Ferry.
THE ADDRESS for readers’ letters is - Readers’ Page, Evening Telegraph, 80 Kingsway East, Dundee DD4 8SL. They can also be placed in our post box at our offices in Albert Square, Dundee, emailed to us on letters@eveningtelegraph.co.uk or faxed on 01382 454590. We ask correspondents using a nom-de-plume or sending by e-mail to provide a name and address for reference purposes. The editor reserves the right to reject or edit any letter. Please keep letters as short as possible.*
email