However, obviously my credit card provider has not been sent the memo. Either that, or they are bucking the trend and enjoying rude financial health at a time when many commercial concerns are scrabbling around for every copper they can get.

After using my credit card a few times over the festive season I decided to pay it off, and not be left with a bill hanging over my head.

I was very surprised when I rang up to be told that my credit limit has been extended by £2500.

Having a level head on my shoulders I didn’t immediately hit the high street and splurge, but I’m sure many other people in the same position would not have been able to resist the temptation, thus getting themselves into a financial pickle and leaving them with an even larger debt burden.

I know the economy needs to be kick-started by banks and lenders being a bit less tight-fisted, but surely this policy of handing out credit to those who have not asked for it is only asking for trouble?

Responsible lending has to be the focus. — Flush.

He said the vandals had defaced one of the city’s “most iconic green spaces” at Magdalen Green.

A new notice board on the Green and the walk-bridge between the Green and the playing fields at Riverside Drive have both been scrawled over by the vandals.

Following complaints from local residents and the Friends of Magdalen Green, Councillor Macpherson said he has contacted the city council’s head of waste management asking that the local authority’s rapid response team remove the graffiti.

Scheme areas of Dundee have been subjected to the work of graffiti artists for years and not a great deal has been said in response.

Considering that the West End of Dundee is viewed as an area of ‘culture’, it makes one wonder how Councillor Macpherson would react if the world renowned graffiti artist Banksy decided to utilise a Perth Road gable end as a blank canvas? — Phil Welsh.

He should consider that Scotland lost 18 shipbuilding companies on the Clyde alone between 1962 and 1984.

Add to that the further loss of shipbuilding jobs in Dundee, Leith and Aberdeen during the 1980s, and the conclusion must be exactly what has Scotland to be grateful for under Unionism?

A share in the building of two aircraft carriers, which are now subject to delays, and indeed may never be completed, is hardly compensation for what Scotland has lost under the decades of Westminster misrule. — Arch Ramsay, Whitfield Gardens, Dundee.

I recall the 1964 film poster had to be withdrawn — because it infringed the famous Burton-Taylor vehicle, Cleopatra.

I was a subscriber to ABC Film Review whose issues featured regular full-colour film posters. I gloated at seeing emergency white, plain, printed paper glued over every poster cancelling out the Carry On team’s advertisement relating to that month’s issue. — J. I. Matthew.

I regularly exercise my dog in this area and find I am sometimes ashamed to be a dog walker due to the amount of dirt left by irresponsible owners.

However, I would disagree with a ban on dog walking on this area. Like myself, most dog walkers are responsible enough to clean up after their pets and thoroughly enjoy this walk throughout the seasons.

There also seems to be a fair amount of litter left lying around. Should we ban all people from taking foodstuffs to the area?

It’s the minority who create these issues. Regular monitoring would help this situation, though I’m sure, it would not be easy.

Why can’t people take pride in where they live, so that all users of this area can enjoy it? — D. Gray.

Firstly it was Hamas itself that ended the ceasefire.

Secondly, as Hamas has a stated aim of literally destroying Israel and it ended the ceasefire, should Israel have then waited until Hamas achieved its declared aim?

The only way that a nation threatened with destruction can respond is with vigorous self-defence.

The alternative for Israel is too dire to contemplate. — The Watchman.

Jens Stolenberg is injecting £200 billion into the Norwegian economy.

How is it that a country one-fifteenth the size of the UK can inject 20 times as much money into its economy? — Gerry McGuigan, Forebank Road, Dundee.