We should build biggest banana boots

£25 STAR LETTER

A statue to Billy Connolly is long overdue. We should give a contract to one of the few shipyards left on the Clyde, where he used to work, to build a pair of steel banana boots 100ft high, like the Angel Of The North or The Kelpies and put them outside the SEC on the banks of the Clyde. New York might have the Statue Of Liberty but we would have the funniest footwear ever worn by the funniest man ever.

Elspeth Mann, Glasgow

Billy’s statue should be in the main concourse at Glasgow Central Railway Station. Welcome to Glasgow.

John Grosvenor, by email

In Liverpool, John Lennon’s statue is outside The Cavern where it all started. Billy Connolly resonates in Glasgow just like The Beatles do in Liverpool so go back to where it all started and put the statue outside The Sarrie Heid where he set the Crucifixion routine. David Tullet, by email

I would like to see Billy with his banjo. He is such a talented musician and music was always a big part of his shows.

Gardner Bridges, Wishaw

John Byrne’s portrait of Billy in the 1970s should be used as a model for the statue. It looks as cool now as it did then. Both of them are great Scots.

Jenny Speirs, by email

Grit’s a good job

Further to your lead letter last week, I’d give a big thank you to Dundee City Council’s road gritters. What a wonderful job they are doing once again.

Judith Hare, by email

Don’t clap – behave

Once again we have Clap For Carers while in lockdown. I understand the sentiment behind it, but feel it is patronising. What our overstretched NHS needs is not claps but people to obey the rules.

Gordon Kennedy, Perth

Mutual respect

It’s a given that the police should act with respect and civility when interacting with the public, but the reverse should also apply.

When groups of individuals are asked to disperse for everyone’s safety, they should not resort to gratuitously remonstrating with police officers. Every word spoken, even worse when it’s shouted, potentially contains expelled droplets of the Covid virus and the police should not be needlessly placed in the firing line. Stephen Mcbride, Largs

Wildlife threatened

I hope Ben Macpherson, our new Minister for Rural Affairs and the Natural Environment, read the article by Jim Crumley about persecution of wildlife.

Mr Macpherson will have to do a lot better than his predecessors if he is to properly protect wild animals and their habitat. He could start by eradicating the culling culture that pervades in many government departments including Naturescot and Marine Scotland. John F Robins, Animal Concern