The Sunday Post (Inverness)

What an awful, terrible, needless loss

£25 STAR LETTER

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I’ve never written to a newspaper before and don’t really know why I am writing now but I’ve just read Sarah Everard’s mother’s statement to the court and it broke my heart.

I don’t think anyone who read it will ever forget it. What a terrible, terrible way to lose a child. What an evil, evil man.

How was a man like that even allowed to be a police officer?

Mrs D Haliiday, Falkirk

The best Bond?

At last, a Scottish newspaper has allowed somebody to write a story that isn’t swooning over the great Sean Connery!

To be honest, I’ve only ever seen a few of his James Bond films and none of Daniel Craig’s so don’t really know which one’s better as 007. But as far as I know, Daniel Craig has never admitted hitting women, been accused of leaving his beloved homeland to avoid paying his taxes, or refused to come home and campaign for devolution until he got assurance it wouldn’t cost him a penny.

I don’t know which one was the better Bond but I know which one I think is the better man.

Catriona Soutar, Edinburgh

Licence to splutter

I very much enjoyed Siobhan Synnot’s piece asking if Daniel Craig is a better Bond than Sean Connery. For what it’s worth I think it’s Sir Sean but her dismissal of the other actors to play 007 made me cough out my coffee. She was quite right though, Pierce Brosnan did play Britain’s most dangerous secret agent like the head waiter on a cruise ship.

John Watterson, Fort William

A final choice

The letter from Dr Griffiths, spokespers­on for the Better Way campaign made me very angry. I have witnessed the unnecessar­y suffering of relatives in the final stages of terminal illness.

Dr Griffiths uses the lack of resources and care for the disabled as a smokescree­n to confuse people. Of course we need to put far greater resources into providing for the disabled, greatly improving our NHS and bringing palliative care into the NHS instead of relying on charities to try and provide that essential service. It is not right, however, to simply withdraw food and water, pump people full of just enough morphine so as not to kill them and put them into a coma to waste away. If someone treated terminally ill dogs and cats the way we treat terminally ill people, they would be arrested for cruelty.

I urge The Sunday Post to send a copy of “Anne’s Story” to every MSP before they vote on this vital issue.

John F Robins by email

Pointless Vigil

I got caught in that thing with Vigil when you watch two episodes and feel you have to finish it? I wish I had just chucked it after two hours instead of ploughing on.

A murder mystery on a nuclear submarine is a brilliant idea and it should have been a brilliant programme but I have had more tense moments dunking biscuits in my tea.

It should have been all set on board. The dry land stuff was not just complicate­d but really dull.

John Watterson, Greenock

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