I read with interest the Evening Telegraph article on ticket touts and the upcoming Billy Connelly concerts in Dundee and Perth.
It’s about time to stop touts from selling inflated-price concert tickets on ebay or anywhere else for that matter.
As many concert tickets go on sale during working hours on weekdays, many people who are working have no chance to buy these until later in the day, by which time the best have all gone or the event is sold out.
Within hours of these tickets going on sale, they are then advertised on ebay for grossly inflated prices, clearly by people who have no intention of ever using the tickets they have bought to attend the event, but to simply rip off the unfortunate “real fans” who cannot get tickets from the official channels as they have been snapped up by greedy touts.
I suggest something needs to be implemented to make it illegal to sell concert tickets on, online or otherwise, for anything other than face value or less to cut down if not stop these selfish profiteers. — D. Adamson.
Barbecue has been packed up for ages
Flooding in Bonnygate, Cupar, earlier this month.
I read with interest that the barbecue summer predicted by the Met Office earlier this year is now a thing of the past.
The revised unsettled forecast for the remainder of the summer is closer to the mark, but to be honest you didn’t have to be a weather guru to work it out.
Living in Cupar, I could’ve told the so-called experts this weeks ago when we were hit by severe flooding.
The fact is that our barbecues and other assorted garden paraphernalia have been packed away for the best part of a month already. —Weathered.
Charity shop
My daughter, Rachel, who is 17-years-old, is running a fundraising shop at 179 High Street, Lochee, from tomorrow until the following Saturday.
Rachel is due to leave for Thailand on August 28 to spend a whole year volunteering through the gap year charity Project Trust.
While in Thailand, Rachel will be teaching English in secondary, primary and nursery schools and also getting involved in other local projects.
In order to take part, she had to raise a total of £4660 for the charity, although there are a lot of additional personal expenses such as vaccinations, travel to London, equipment, etc. She still needs to raise approximately one quarter of the overall total. — Beth Whiteside.
Disco
A fundraising karaoke night and disco will take place in aid of Maggies Centre, at the Craigtay Hotel, Dundee, tomorrow from 7pm. Tickets cost £5 at the door. — Reader.
Pram attacked by seagull
My husband, son and I went to a restaurant in Dundee city centre recently.
When we left, I was horrified when a young mother walking past with little girl and a baby in the pram was attacked by a seagull. I ran outside to see if she was okay.
The seagull grabbed a sandwich out her hand and just missed her face.
She was okay but a bit shocked to say the least.
Something needs to be done immediately before something serious happens. It was like a scene from Hitchcock’s film The Birds. — Concerned.
Marvelettes
Legends (BBC2) chronicled Motown’s immense contribution to soul music, featuring icons like song-writing phenomenon Holland-Dozier-Holland.
It was a comprehensive show, but to be truly complete I feel some clips of The Marvelettes would have been good.
These girls were a foursome — i.e. Wanda Rogers, Gladys Horton, and Janice and Regina Holleman.
Van McCoy’s composition When You’re Young And In Love (1967) their most memorable single.
Smokey Robinson’s songwriting supplemented their tally with classics like Don’t Mess With Mill and My Baby Must Be A Magician. — J. I. Matthews.
Afghanistan
Jaap De Hoop Scheffer, general secretary of NATO, has acknowledges that it had been a “tragic period” for the UK in Afghanistan. He went on to say the troops were part of a Nato team making a “shared sacrifice”.
Yet this “shared sacrificed” seems to be carried out by three nations out of the 42 represented in Afghanistan.
As well as having the second most troops there we are also losing more than most. USA has lost 747, UK 187, Canada 125.
So long as Nato relies on three nations to do its dirty work the world will never be united against terrorism. — Dyke.
Time to tidy up
I’m a lorry driver who drives to Aberdeen every day and what a joy it is to see that city’s flower displays on show entering the city and all around it even though the council is meant to be skint.
Now what do I see when I come home?
Rubbish and overgrown verges and roundabouts, not a flower in sight. It is a poor reflection on our city.
Maybe tourists would stop for a moment if it looked a bit better.
Come on Dundee City Council, do something about it. — Flower Power.
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