A disabled elderly woman was robbed in broad daylight in the city’s Hill Street. It is thought she may have been deliberately targeted after leaving the post office with £500.

I was in the queue behind an elderly lady who I overheard asking for a substantial sum of money.

As I followed her up the road, I was very conscious of the fact she was carrying such a large sum of money and how easily I had found this out.

Is there no way of increasing security both at post offices and banks where I have also overheard such conversations?

To add to the overheard conversations/requests, the tellers then count the money out to the customer, thus confirming a large sum of money has been withdrawn.

I’m only surprised targeted robberies do not happen more frequently. — Concerned.

One exception should be the advertisement of job vacancies even though there is an increasing trend of these ads going online. Several reasons stick out.

Firstly, moving this online may help the computer literate, but four in 10 Scots don’t have broadband, and, as more and more work beyond the retrial age, seven in 10 over 65s don’t use the Internet.

Secondly, newspapers undertake a special role in society.

They carry local news and advise council changes, such as bin collections and sound advice against scammers, burglaries and the like.

Many, including the elderly, stay in contact with their neighbours through visits to the local shop for a pint of milk and the daily newspaper.

Thirdly, revenue from job vacancies is a significant part of a newspaper’s income.

Allowing councils to move job vacancies online, especially at a time when advertising and sales of newspapers are falling annually, would hit all newspapers hard and will sound the death knell for many.

While this idea is council-driven, it’s no secret that much of the Scottish press isn’t a great fan of the SNP’s grand plans for our country’s future.

Cynics may suggest there is more to the SNP’s willingness to progress this proposal than meets the eye.

I implore the SNP administration to work with opposition parties and remove this threat for good.

Scotland’s newspapers have a long and proud history.

A free Press is at the heart of every democracy.

It is therefore in every democrat’s interests that the newspaper industry is not allowed to disappear, something which could happen with the removal of this revenue. — Democrat, Dundee.

The Prime Minister’s constitutional tinkering should be abandoned, and the estimated £60 million cost of the plan should be directed at creating jobs for our unemployed, and reversing the spending cuts being forced on our cash-strapped councils by Westminster. — Scotus.

I refer to the letters criticising the Liberal Democrats for campaigning at the station.

Party loyalty and political point-scoring shouldn’t come before what is best for the city. Network Rail has shown it will act when political pressure is applied.

The chance of an upgrade will only be achieved if everyone who has Dundee’s best interests at heart comes together and speaks out with one voice, advice that should also apply to our MPs, councillors and MSPs. — Dundee Reader.

They are 8am to 10pm weekdays, 8am to 6pm Saturdays, 8am to 9pm Sundays, and will continue to be so in the future.

The hours have not changed, but because of lack of demand during weekday mornings and early afternoons we have changed staff cover accordingly.

We are trying to find alternative provision for the carpet bowlers and no other service users have been affected by changes to staff cover. From 3pm until 9pm, there will be a full complement of staff when the facility is busier.

Dundee Leisure is looking at other initiatives such as creating a local membership scheme, which would enable the facility to be better used during the day. — Bob Duncan, Chair of Dundee Leisure.

I was, therefore, disappointed to see that a motion to stop the downgrading was voted down at the recent Fire Board meeting. I was even more disappointed to see that amongst those voting it down were the Dundee Labour councillors and Broughty Ferry councillor Rod Wallace.

Here they had a chance to save Balmossie and, despite their recent fine rhetoric, voted to keep Balmossie in the firing line. — Political Connoisseur.

Why don’t councillors take a big, big cut in wages and give it to the charities who deserve it? Not only that, take time and listen to the Dundee people. — Tully.