Snpcoffinnail?

That Nicola Sturgeon supports an independence referendum in Catalonia is unsurprising.

What is surprising is that the canny Ms Sturgeon’s nationalist fervour has led her down such an unpragmatic path. She would need support from Spain – a country she has now alienated – if an independent Scotland is ever to join the EU. Without the prospect of EU membership, the SNP leader’s own separatist ambitions become more unlikely.

Has Ms Sturgeon just hammered a nail into her own political coffin?

MARTIN REDFERN Woodcroft Road, Edinburgh To great fanfare, the Scottish Government said that there were 500,000 air weapons in Scotland that had to be licenced or taken off the streets.

The Freedom of Information request shows that 21,404 were surrendered to the police and 17,332 licences issued.

Where are the other 461,264 weapons, or were they yet another figment of an SNP fertile imagination policy?

Police Scotland has a deficit approaching £180 million by the end of the current parliamentary session and a failed computer system, yet the Snpdominated Scottish Government want to add the Scottish part of the British Transport Police to the volatile mix.

The police must tackle crime, not paperwork and SNP vanity projects.

CLARK CROSS Springfield Road, Linlithgow