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of those caught over the old limit and an increase in those caught overall, showing that lowering the limit has not had the deterrent effect claimed.

The SNP have a good line in policies which are enacted to prove Scottish exceptionalism. Criticise them and you are in favour of drink driving, student debt, sick people paying for medicine and hate babies. Any policy by any government requires proper scrutiny, however, and cannot be assumed as automatically being a good thing.

As a help to Ms Sturgeon while she is busy agitating for another independence referendum, perhaps a better way of lowering drink driving would be to restrict concessionary travel to those who most need it and invest in better all-day bus services so everyone else can leave their cars at home when they’ve had a drink.

(DR) SJ CLARK Easter Road, Edinburgh Every time the subject of “assisted death” comes up, parish clergy like me who support a merciful release for patients dying in extremis are shouted down by church “spokespersons”. Archbishops and committee persons who haven’t been in a psychogeriatric ward in 30 years insist the elderly are “well supported” by the NHS – “the best health service in the world”!

The reality is lying on a hospital trolley for many hours in a corridor, in pain and not knowing what’s going to happen. You don’t have a change of clothes, you can’t get to the toilet, you are worried about the future and everyone is too busy filling forms to talk to you.

It’s about then that you wish Holyrood had found the courage to give you the option of Margo’s Law. (REV DR) JOHN CAMERON

Howard Place, St Andrews