Salmond affair makes us look terribly small

£25 STAR LETTER

Personally, I think the Scottish Government sounds like it’s hiding something about Alex Salmond but whoever you think is telling the truth, our country is being made to look terribly small.

I certainly don’t understand every detail of what is meant to have happened but I don’t like the way the government has treated MSPS and I don’t like the way they are trying to blacken Salmond’s name. If they were as confident about what went on as they say they are, it shouldn’t be necessary. Mrs J Bellingham, Edinburgh Stairheid rammy II Reading the headline about a stair heid rammy ( Your View, February 21) an incident came to mind from when I was a “Queen’s District Nurse Midwife” in Glasgow in the ’60s. We were shown great respect wherever we went and on night duty would be driven by taxi to the patient’s house.

On this visit we were halfway up the stair of a tenement when we heard a terrible rammy from the flat. The driver’s face was a picture of terror. I said to him in my broad Doric: “Dinna be feart, jist pit my stethoscope roon yer neck and ye will be fine.” Apprehensively, he took my advice .

We got to the rammy when a voice said: “Here’s the maternity.” It was like parting of the waters and they stood back to let us pass. Adeline Reid MBE, Keith

Battling myths

Further to your article about Culloden (Sunday Post, February 21) it was far from the bloodiest battle on British soil and most of the Jacobites who fell probably died in the fighting, rather than in the massacre that followed.

Their cause was unpopular in Lowland Scotland and they were opposed at Culloden not by “the English” but by the British Army: a fair percentage of whom were Scottish or Irish, including troops from five Scottish regiments. Robert Johnston, St Fergus