Our care home heroes deserve a medal

£25 STAR LETTER

Your story about what really happened in the care homes was so sad. My mum was in one before she died six years ago and not being able to visit her in those last years would have broken my heart.

My thoughts are with all the residents and their families but also with the staff, who have done their very best in such a terrible time. Rightly, everyone praises our NHS but all our carers deserve medals. They are such heroes.

Pat Murchie, by email

The King and I

I thoroughly enjoyed your birthday tributes to Kenny Dalglish on his 70th. His talent as a footballer made him a sporting legend but the way he and his wife Marina reacted after Hillsborough showed so much strength and compassion. On a list of great Scots, he is near the top.

Although I can’t believe my boyhood idol is such age. If King Kenny is 70, I’m...old.

Janette Mcgilliard, Glasgow

Here’s a tip for you

No wonder people are doing so much fly-tipping. I went down to get rid of some old wood and was asked what kind it was.

I said, tree wood, wood is wood, but it seems that it all goes in different containers. This is utter rubbish. If I had phoned in to have it uplifted, it would have cost me £16 per article.

It cost the councils more to clear fly-tipping than it costs to uplift articles for free.

David Mack, Ross-shire

Jagged and stamped

Could our vaccine appointment letter (or information booklet you are given) not be date-stamped and initialled on exiting the vaccination centre by a clerical officer.

It would give some sort of proof that you have received your vaccine. Most people I have met present their letter on arrival. The nurses already do enough so a clerical officer could carry out the task.

M Blair, Greenock

Poll lot of nonsense

What arrant nonsense from Henry Mcleish saying “no party should be so long in power”.

Apparently he doesn’t realise parties are in power because a majority of people vote them into power! Alan Page says it is “unhealthy and we need checks and balances”. I thought an election provided this! Are they saying that people should be made to vote for a different party after a certain number of years? Or that the MSP voting system should be organised so one party can’t achieve a majority? I thought the existing system was meant to achieve that, but it doesn’t!

I don’t remember any rumblings of discontent from Mcleish or anyone else when Labour were in power at Westminster for 13 years!

That was OK presumably. Jim Adamson, Cupar

Wrong numbers

I watch the quiz show Only Connect on TV. When the teams are jabbing the buttons trying to make the connections on the wall it makes me think of what I’m like trying to remember the code to get into my phone and starting to panic!

B Samson, by email