Learn to swim at local pool

As tragic as any deaths by drowning are, especially when children are involved, why should the Government pay for mandatory lessons in schools? I and many of my friends taught ourselves to swim in the local pool back in the 1960s. People need to take responsibility for their lives.

A Forrest, Largs

The Scottish Greens have warned against a ‘backwards step’ of increased reliance on nuclear power.

Yet over the past 143 days, on average, renewable energy, mostly wind, supplied only 18.5 per cent of our electricity. Nuclear was 16 per cent and fossil fuels 43.6 per cent. The Greens should instead warn of a ‘backward step’ of increased reliance on unreliable, subsidised wind turbines.

Clark Cross, Linlithgow