£20-a-week top-up should be reinstated by Sturgeon

REGARDING Susan Swain’s letter (Thursday) saying Scotland desperately needs independence, it was made clear at the time the £20-a-week top-up was a temporary measure.

Pensioners didn’t get any extra. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon especially had plenty to say about it.

If she is so concerned about it, why doesn’t she reinstate it? According to herself we are a very wealthy rich country that can afford to be independent.

This is the perfect opportunity to prove it.

Anne Melvin

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THE money being paid to those ‘celebrities’ taking part in I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here is shocking.

These people are already seriously wealthy.

I wonder if they would have been so keen to participate if proceeds were to go to charities who badly need them?

I think they would be shouting: ‘get me out of here’!

MA

Glasgow

WITH regards to the article this week about insulating Glasgow tenements, many of them are listed buildings.

There are many restrictions on them including window replacements from single to double glazing.

Neil J MacPherson

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ON November 7, I watched the channel 5 programme, Britaint’s Council House Millionaires.

Viewers, like myself with a social conscience, homeless and people waiting on a council house for years, watching the programme, had every right to be angry.

In the programme we saw two multi-millionaires, who had made their fortunes, buying up council property, which had been built with taxpayers’ money.

Not content with charging four-figure sums for rental, the programme also highlighted a young budding estate agent, disgracefully boasting that he had sub-divided a flat into three, charging over four figures for each one, bringing the monthly rent to more than £3000.

The properties were initially sold, with a generous discount by the councils, under the late Margaret Thatcher’s right-to-buy policy, which made no provision for people, who for various reasons, would never become homeowners in their lifetime.

RSD

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THIS week’s decision by Steven Gerrard to jump ship and move to Aston Villa shows how little loyalty there is in football.

He had admitted just weeks earlier that he was happy at Ibrox but decided to move as soon as an EPL club showed a slight bit of interest.

His status at Rangers has well and truly been wiped out by this decision. The timing is awful and does nothing for his reputation. Keith James

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