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Dear Editor My wife and I were out the other night, I was on my bike and my wife uses a mobility scooter and were appalled to find that there are no dropped kerbs from Bertha Park Way all the way to Marks and Spencer at Inveralmond Industrial Estate.

In this day and age it is not acceptable that I had to lift her scooter up and down all the kerbs.

As her scooter only does 4mph it is not allowed on the roads and to be honest it can be a busy road at night as well. Peter and Carol Robertson By email

Dear Editor NHS Tayside is supporting Deaf Awareness Week (May15-19) by hosting an information stand at Ninewells Hospital, providing information to people experiencing problems with their hearing or eyesight.

Visitors, staff and patients visiting the hospital are invited to stop by the information stand on the concourse where they can find out about information and local services for people who are experiencing problems with their hearing or their eyesight.

The theme this year for Deaf Awareness Week is ‘Common Purpose’and is an opportunity to raise awareness that one in six people in the UK are deaf or have a hearing loss.

The event at Ninewells is supported by NHS Tayside’s Audiology Service as well as various local groups and organisations to support the deaf and hearing impaired community.

Groups include Deaf Links, Action on Hearing Loss, Vision PK, North East Sensory Services, Dundee Blind and Partially Sighted Society and Dundee City Council Multi Sensory Service.

Visitors to the stand will be able to pick up information leaflets, chat to an NHS Tayside audiologist as well as representatives from various organisations involved in supporting people with hearing loss. NHS Tayside