Well, why not Scotland? It’s anyone’s guess

I live near a busy road junction and there are long delays every day since they started digging it up, with signs saying it is going on for 16 weeks. No one knows what they are doing or why it is taking so long.

Not once have I seen anyone working there, certainly not when I’m going to work in the morning or coming home at night. Thousands of people being delayed every day for four months is a joke.

My son lived in Japan and says road crews work shifts all through

the day and all night. The roads are impeccable and there is hardly ever delays. So, to use Nicola Sturgeon’s new catchphrase, why not Scotland?

Stewart Hamilton, Glasgow

No need for cull

Further to the deer of Kinlochleven: for some time suggestions have been made to the landowner and the Community Trust to consult with the whole community; evaluate what the perceived problems are and find solutions such as repairing the rotted deer fences, consider deer grids, educate the public on how to treat deer, and combat misinformation about Lyme disease and ticks.

In addition, external agencies, such as Naturescot, need to be far more involved, aware and accountable for supervising the agencies who are supposed to be managing land and showing competent stewardship of wildlife here. To parachute in for closed meetings with people who all share the same negative views on the deer and then agree to culling is simply unacceptable.

Debbie O’harra, Kinlochleven

Cull benefits?

Further to your story about the deer in Kinlochleven, with the rising price of food, could a national cull not help supply butchers or provide good food to those most in need?

And, on another note, I was travelling on a bus all over the north of Scotland and Orkney two weeks ago and I didn’t see one field of potatoes but saw a lot of fields of grass.

C. Bryson, Clydebank

Dressing down

I enjoyed the story about the lady who put on fancy dress to put her bins out.

Fancy dress always reminds me of the Halloween when I saw Marilyn Monroe giving Harry

Potter a terrible time outside the Mcdonald’s in Coatbridge.

D. Hagger, Bellshill

Thanks for the tip

Just returned from a lovely trip around the NC500 via Orkney. At Applecross we visited the Walled Garden restaurant recently recommended by your good selves. What a find. The setting was lovely as was the food served by very helpful staff. Well worth the journey.

Sandy Aiken, Sutton Coldfield

Is stat any better?

Re your headline: “Poll: Just 1% of Scots think UK system could not be better.” After shuffling it around in my head for a few seconds I found it reads easier as: “Poll: 99% of Scots think UK system could be better!” John Aitken, Motherwell