Letters..

Thrifty generation

WHEN you hear about how people cannot manage and have to go to food banks to feed their family, it makes me wonder how did our parents manage in the 40s and 50s?

I can’t help but think that parents today spend money on the wrong things.

For guising, our mothers didn’t buy us fancy dress costumes. They used a needle and thread to alter something and the only outlay was for a false face and crepe paper. We were happy enough and had fun.

Next it will be Christmas and some will put themselves into a lot of debt. Give what you can afford and no more.

Contented OAP, Glasgow

Proper sentencing

OUR sentences are a joke.

Four years for the killer of a young dad. Shocking.

A road-rage killer gets parole not once but twice – and then reoffends again. How many chances does he need?

Why is there parole at all for murderers, rapists and child abusers? To know that one day the offender will be set free is not “justice”. We should start to think of the victims and their families and not give criminals a chance to reoffend. James Hume, High Valleyfield, Fife

GIVEN the appallingly lenient sentences being handed out to murderers and violent criminals these days, I imagine if serial killer Peter Manuel was being sentenced today, he would receive 20 years and be out in 10.

Thankfully, in his day punishment fitted the crime and ensured no one else could be murdered by this criminal. KB