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from a tournament such as the Scottish FA Cup, the problems would be resolved quickly.

The view of the Scottish Government chimes with that of the public, as the social attitide surveys confirm. The ordinary decent football fan is sick to the back teeth of the impotence of the SFA and SPFL in the face of the vested interests in the Game.

JOHN V LLOYD Keith Place, Inverkeithing their next move would be to apply for a headship no longer wish to occupy that final rung. As always in this kind of situation the law of social inertia applies, namely, there will be no change until it becomes harder to maintain the status quo than to change. Those who care about our children’s education should make their feelings known to the Education Secretary, John Swinney, by e-mailing him at john.swinney.msp@parliament.scot

DOUG CLARK Muir Wood Grove Currie, Midlothian between Greeks and Turks, is now, slowly, approaching the possibility of a future as one country again. The hatred and divisions between the two peoples, one Christian and European, the other Muslim and Middle Eastern, may be consigned to the history books and the Un-patrolled line which divides them may go and free movement return.

Here in the little island of Great Britain, a political party exists, hard though it may be to believe, whose sole aim is to achieve the sort of division here which Cypriots are hoping to consign to the dustbin of history.

Having had a democratic vote to keep Scotland in the UK, with no qualifications of any kind and a significant majority, we still find our economy trailing behind the rest of the UK because we have a party of division running the Scottish Government.

They hope to divide our island, which will create a frontier, just like the one in Cyprus.

It is time Scotland took a leaf from Cyprus’s book and consigned our separatists to the history books.

ANDREW HN GRAY Craiglea Drive, Edinburgh As Scottish airport traffic continues to grow Aberdeen Airport passenger numbers have dropped by 12 per cent and there have been calls for an urgent action plan to breathe new life into it. How about:

1) Improving luggage and passenger handling as the frequent delays are unacceptable for such a small airport.

2) Abandoning the unwelcome £2 drop-off charge.

3) Changing the name of the airport to Annie Lennox Airport for better international recognition. DENNIS FORBES GRATTAN

Mugiemoss Road Bucksburn, Aberdeen Difficult to imagine anyone would want the likes of Jeremy Hunt running the NHS in this country. Thank goodness we have the SNP! – Cluthaalba What Sturgeon fails to point out is that spending per head in Scotland is higher than in England because of our generous settlement through Barnett , but the gap is narrowing, with the SNP diverting money from the NHS to pet projects, whereas the Tories are increasing spending on their NHS. – Alreadytakentwice When post-truth populist nationalism infects your