Keep official fireworks and ban the rest

£25 STAR LETTER

So Asda takes fireworks off the shelves in Dundee after a night of rioting but are happy to sell them in every other town and city in Scotland along with all the other shops. It’s ridiculous.

The sale of fireworks should be banned. Full stop. The noise and disruption and the terrified pets would be enough on their own, never mind the injuries caused every year.

I live near a park and have been woken up every night this week by explosions. They are not even display fireworks – just blasts. It literally sounds like a war zone. It was bad enough for us but we don’t have kids sleeping. Big organised displays should be the only fireworks allowed, the rest should be banned and as soon as possible. Jennifer Cawley, Glasgow

Our sporting shame

Thank you for highlighting calls for the SFA to stay away from the World Cup in Qatar [Sunday Post last week]. No self-respecting fan or official should be anywhere near it.

It has always been a disgrace that Fifa gave them it but now it’s going from theory to reality, it is even worse. Fans are being asked to attend games and celebrate goals in stadiums almost literally built on the bodies of migrant workers. What an obscenity.

I cannot remember any World Cup when the build-up has been so low-key. The whole world should feel ashamed that we allowed this to happen.

John Truesdale, by email

Arts under threat

The story about the crisis in arts and culture was sobering. I know everyone is suffering at the moment but I worry that if we lose these kinds of groups and organisations, we might lose them forever, which would be a terrible shame.

P Gordon, Fife

Calling the tune

Further to the letter from reader Andy Guy [Sunday Post last week].

It was the Alexander Brothers and others sang the song I’m Sandy Mackay, I’m Andy Mckay. I have just listened to it on Youtube. In its day, it was sung in the White Heather Club.

David Miller, Milngavie

Design dilemma

Now that Glasgow has been named the “UK’S first feminist city” I have a question. Unless women have the same ambling gait of a marine iguana or are encased in a Dalek-like metallic carapace then can someone from Glasgow City Council genuinely explain how our current built environment and public spaces have “shortcomings in design” so they can’t be accessed by them and how after 9,000 years of city building this has only become an issue in 2022?

David Bone, Girvan

Same old Tories

I fear anyone hoping Rishi Sunak will be a new broom after Liz Truss and Boris Johnson are going to be disappointed. His cabinet is full of the same old faces. We should be getting an election and if they think anyone is going to forget what’s just happened, they’re even more foolish than they look.

Sheena Matheson, by email