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The fallout from the farm payments fiasco rumbles on and there is little sign of any effort to bring some relief to those at the lower end of the income scale.

Surely some attempt to bring forward a zero tax take from poorer households would not only boost their disposable income but also apply jump leads to retail business. Sam Coull, Lendrum

Terrace, Boddam Labour Party whose leader, Jeremy Corbyn, never a big fan of the EU, offers better arguments for a non-hard Brexit, with the added advantage of no Indyref2 sub-plot, socialist credentials and policies which are more genuine than the SNP's.

Mr Corbyn's tanks are on Ms Sturgeon's lawn and in another general election Labour could win the 12 seats in Scotland where they are within 5% of the SNP, meaning their “triple lock" mandate will have been well and truly sprung. Allan Sutherland, Willow

Row, Stonehaven Had she rushed in for an out-ofcharacter “Corbyn cuddle” she would have been patronised and ridiculed. As it was, the gravitas of her reaction to speak first to the rescue services was savagely criticised.

There can be few of us who’ve not been affected by tragedy in one way or another, and we all face it in different ways. We should afford the prime minister respite – she already has a daunting job on her hands. Keren Carter, Castlehill

Gardens, Inverness