A bad light

I question the logic in your headline “TRNSMT shows us in our best light” (Donald Macleod, July 14).

Does it really?

I read subsequently of 44 arrests, a stabbing, an alleged sexual assault, and of residents too frightened to come out of their homes due to people urinating in their gardens.

If that’s showing us in a good light, then heaven help us all.

Also, why the need to run down another major event held in Glasgow weeks before which brought much-needed revenue to shops and businesses in the city, and significantly less trouble than TRNSMT, unless there is a different agenda, Mr Macleod?

G.S. Jones, Uddingston

Your correspondent, Dennis Forbes Grattan, is wrong when he writes about the BBC Scotland channel and licences for the over-75s ( Your View, July 14).

Contrary to what he says, the new BBC Scotland channel has performed in line with Ofcom expectations since its launch and is the digital channel that reaches most people in Scotland between 7pm and midnight, outwith the main five.

So, although it’s still early days, the initial reaction to all the additional new content provided especially for audiences in Scotland has been very positive.

On the licence fee for the over-75s, any household with someone aged over 75 who receives Pension Why would you plaster your middle pages with a large photograph of animals headed for slaughter? Why promote the San Fermin festival at Pamplona (Images Of The Week, July 14)?

Not only is it cruel for animals to be harassed and tormented through the streets, but every animal who survives will be chased into the bullring to be tortured.

A raft of charities are trying to get this type of “event”, and ultimately bullfighting, ended.

Ernie Scales, via email

Yes, Madonna has had a long and glittering career (Sunday Post, July 14).

But her latest album, “Madame X”, didn’t make it to the top of the charts, pipped by Bruce Springsteen’s Western Stars. Indeed, The Boss’s career goes back to the decade prior to her emergence.

Tim Mickleburgh, Grimsby