Damage repairs

It is beyond belief that Glasgow Airport is taking remotely seriously the scurrilous attempts of Clydebank residents to make them pay for their roof repairs which, if the media pictures are anything to gobyaretheresultofpoorroutine maintenance, not aircraft vibrations.

Furthermore, as the residents are all close to a large trunk road – the partly dual carriageway A82 was once a route for Shell oil tankers – one suggests the well-documented property scourge of articulated lorries thundering through Clydebank 24/7 are more to blame than alleged jumbo vibrations.

I’ve lived for four decades where jumbo jets and RAF fighters roar directly over our house – the same proximity to the airport as Clydebank. To the best of my knowledge, in all that time not one estate resident has ever lost a single tile.

Yet these rapscallions uttering

vaguely of court action have already managed to fleece gullible airport management into paying for new double glazed windows and insulation while the rest of us along the flightpath paid for these ourselves long ago.

As the plaintiffs all appear to be those who bought out their council houses, one questions

whether the real problem is – as is so often the case – an inability to cope with the routine rigours of home ownership without nanny council and expecting as before their maintenance to come at everyone else’s expense.

MARK BOYLE Linn Park Gardens, Johnstone,

Renfrewshire