Dundee City Council has apparently withdrawn funding because the project had not met its target of successful job placements for its graduates. These targets were set before the unemployment level rose so high.

Out of about 55 graduates, 24 are now in employment, including me.

That’s 24 people who would have still been on benefits without the help of the amazing staff at STRIVE, who were not there just for a job but were there because they cared passionately about helping people who believed themselves to be unemployable and gave them so much support and training they regained their self-confidence and their self-esteem and the belief they were very much employable.

I found the course very beneficial and am deeply saddened and angry that other disadvantaged Dundonians will not have the opportunity STRIVE gave me.

If there is anyone or any organisation who can offer funding to this project, please get in touch with STRIVE or The Lennox Partnership and give this project a deserved lifeline. — Proud STRIVE Graduate.

It’s getting really ridiculous for us nurses.

We love our jobs, but the shifts are tiring and the wards are very busy and we don’t get time to stop.

Our half hour break is much needed to refresh ourselves by eating and finally having a minute to go to the bathroom.

Waiting in line in the canteen behind queues of visitors to get served and told sorry that’s finished (the visitors got there first) after just one hour of opening is frustrating.

We could bring our own food in, which I do sometimes, but there should be food left in the canteen an hour after it opens.

I don’t grudge any visitors a meal, as some could be there all day if someone is very poorly, and they also need to eat an evening meal, but we should be in separate canteens. It’s our time for relaxing and recharging our batteries, not to sit in a “local café.” — Nursing Staff.

I have been using this facility for the past month since my wife was admitted to the hospital.

I use it at the protected mealtimes on the wards, which is usually between 5pm and 6pm. I am amongst the two to three dozen people in at that time of the evening and I have never seen queues at the cash desk.

I do take my wife down sometimes if she has visitors from out of town. I have not seen people with bags and drips as suggested, and wheelchairs fit under the tables and do not take up too much room.

I usually see many visitors in the concourse eating chips and cheese from the café there.

Also quite a few of the nurses can be seen buying food at this café.

Surely there are more things wrong with the NHS the nurses could complain about. — Grateful Husband.

It was absolutely brilliant, from great singing and acting to fabulous outfits and accompanying music.

We laughed from start to finish and were almost joining in with the singing and dancing towards the end.

To achieve this, Dundee Operatic Society has worked incredibly hard, and the company has to be commended on what was a truly superb production. — Fran Benison, Dudhope Gardens, Dundee.

These were hard-working men who were trying to save their jobs and the communities in which they lived.

I wonder if she would condemn the so-called banking and financial experts with the same venom.

These are people who have caused chaos and inflicted hardship on thousands of honest hard-working men and women. — Disillusioned.

I have applied for at least 200 in the past six months, had about three emails to say no thanks and an interview for a driving job, which 170 went for.

This is after I was encouraged to get an apprenticeship in engineering when I left school. — Very Unhappy.

I can think of several areas which could do with new rules. In Dundee you basically have three types/tiers of taxi licences.

1. Yellow Plate licences for saloon vehicles.

2. Yellow Plate licences for wheelchair accessible vehicles.

3. Private Hire (white plate) for any vehicle type. (Can't pick up on the street).

The one thing all the above share is the licence cost, which is identical for each licence type, which in my opinion is unfair to begin with.

Yellow Plate licences for saloon vehicles should be the most expensive as this is the most sought.

Yellow Plate licences for wheelchair accessible vehicles should have no fee.

Private hire vehicles should be somewhere between the two.

It would make sense for all wheelchair accessible vehicles to be fitted with a powered winch.

This would go a long way to enhancing the Health & Safety aspect of even able bodied taxi drivers handling large wheelchair-bound passengers.

If you have a medical condition which prevents you assisting the public in any way I don't think you should be driving a taxi. — JP.