What else has been kept secret

on both sides of the fence.

Troubled times surely lie ahead but if we adhere to the terms of the 11th Commandment “Do unto others as you would have them do unto thyself” and follow the example set by the Good Samaritan then we should all come through this crisis stronger, wiser and more resilient.

T W Macfarlane, Carey Mill, Dunsinnan Road, Wolfhill. is responsible for keeping that aisle stocked. Patricia Donald. 3 Scotscraig Mains, Tayport.

Sir, – Tony Perridge (‘Be prepared for fallacious UK arguments’, Courier, March 13) drew attention to the Mccrone Report, commissioned by the UK Government in 1975, at the start of the North Sea Oil bonanza, to measure the potential impact on the Scottish economy, at a time when support for Scottish independence was on the rise.

Economist Mccrone reported that Scotland would be extremely wealthy, and the cause of independence would be bolstered.

The UK Government promptly marked the report ‘Top Secret’ and locked it away for 30 years, only reluctantly revealing it through a freedom of information request in 2005.

But this is not the only example of official UK subterfuge.

If you were to stand on Carnoustie beach, and look out to sea, you would probably think that these would be Scottish waters.

But no: over the horizon, where much of the North Sea oil has been found, you would be in English waters. And again, deceit is involved.

In 1999, on the day before the Scottish Parliament came into being, the Labour Party First Minister for Scotland Donald Dewar agreed a deal with Prime Minister Tony Blair to redraw the existing English/scottish maritime border giving England 6,000 square miles of Scottish waters, including the Argyll Field, and six other major oilfields.

This again was clearly a plot to weaken the financial case for Scottish independence and again, still, 20 years later, is little known.

So what other dirty tricks have been perpetrated that we don’t know about, and what plans are undoubtedly being made now to subvert the increasingly clear wish of the Scottish people to be in control of our own destiny in an independent nation?

Les Mackay. 5 Carmichael Gardens, Dundee.

G M Lindsay. Whinfield Gardens, Kinross.

Martin Redfern. Woodcroft Road, Edinburgh.