On Monday we received a complaint from a local resident about the noise the kids make whilst drumming. The complainer is threatening to start a petition to stop the kids drumming.

We meet at the community centre once a week where we drum for 45 minutes in practice for the gigs that we do for charity.

This practice happens inside the centre and finishes at 5pm. We even keep the doors closed out of respect for local residents (although it does become uncomfortably hot).

We are taking children off the streets and giving them something to do, and let’s face it, there is precious little available to keep children out of trouble.

And yet we have had a complaint. I can imagine from the type of person who oft complains about children in the street.

What would you have young people do? Sit indoors all evening?

I would like to invite the complainer to our next practice so that they can see how much fun these children are having, and for a good cause. Just last year we raised more than £200 for a children’s charity. — Irate Drummer.

But if no “formal plans exist”, why wasn’t this made clear in the briefing to the Tele?

Instead the public were left thinking the SNP-run council had plans, which now only needed Network Rail consent to go ahead.

People understand the SNP administration is new and will need time to find its feet.

It is a matter of record that the plans referred to were drawn up by the previous Labour-Lib Dem administration and presented to the Dundee Waterfront Board over two years ago. — Local Politics Watcher.

The previous Labour-Lib Dem administration included a new rail station as part of its impressive vision for the waterfront.

Has Mr Dawson, in his first three weeks as convener, requested council architects draw up alternative plans? — Politico.

The latest is Fraser MacPherson moaning about the plans for the new railway station.

Councillor MacPherson had ample opportunity to publish these plans but chose not to. It is more than a little hypocritical to moan that they are not being published now. — Political Connoisseur.

It strikes me as misguided that licenses should be granted so readily purely based on whether the police have no direct issues with a particular establishment.

Being a Union Street resident, I have witnessed, as recently as Sunday night, acts of anti-social behaviour including rowdiness, disorder, indecent exposure, and so on.

There seems to be little consideration for the consequences and the impact on the lives of residents that alcohol-fuelled behaviour has.

I’m sure if it were their doorsteps being defiled in such ways, then the Licensing Board’s decision would have been different. — City Centre Resident.

The new Secretary of State has shown strength so far in her dealings with foreign governments, not least in her blunt assessment of the problems facing Pakistan.

Obama and Clinton are turning out to be an effective team and with Hillary at the helm, the US can start to gain the respect lost during the Bush administration. — U. S. Fan.

The kids didn’t hang about the street, they loved playing on the trampoline.

Now they have nothing. — Reader.

I thought the facilities were excellent, the staff was friendly and helpful and overall I was very impressed with the service on offer.

When I was paying for our session, staff handed me a leaflet which clearly shows Dundee City Council’s new guidelines in relation to adult-child ratios which applies to all swimming pools in Dundee not just St. Paul’s — the rules are in place for a reason which is to ensure safety of children.

I think it is great the school has opened up its facilities for the local community in the holidays and I will definitely be visiting again. — Dundee Mum.