I have to ask: Do they know it’s Christmas?

£25 STAR LETTER

I couldn’t believe Aberdeen City Council ordered Christmas decorations to be taken down in a sheltered housing complex for health and safety reasons. Really, a tree and other festive ornaments were removed on the orders of the council.

C’mon Aberdeen City Council, give them their tree and decorations back. Don’t ruin Christmas for any of the residents.

It’s an insult to the staff in these places that you think they are not competent to follow health and safety rules. Of course they do, their priority is their residents and their wellbeing. These people are dedicated to their jobs and making residents lives safer, better, and more enjoyable.

Even Scrooge relented at Christmas. Put the smile back on the residents’ faces and give them their Christmas back – you’re spoiling it for everyone.

– J Quinn, Cardross Fact news

Recently in my local library I overheard a young girl ask her mother: “Mummy, why do they call it nonfiction? Why don’t they just call it fact?”

If only it were so simple!

– Neil Harrison, Edinburgh Oor Woolly

I was very interested in the Star Letter in last week’s Sunday Post. I also knitted an Oor Wullie jumper for my oldest grandson – and heis42!

My cousin tells me I started knitting when I was three years old and have done ever since.

A Post reader some years ago asked if anyone had the pattern. I sent it to her and got a nice letter back.

– Morna Kippen, Blairgowrie Fare warning

The railways are getting as bad as the buses.

They put up fares but cannot run to a timetable. It is time we stood up and did something about it.

– J Simpson, Airdrie Sock it to ’em

I was thrilled to bits when I read your letter from Monica Blood about darning socks.

I’ve been darning socks now for 60 years.

Alas, when you buy socks, they don’t last and need darned before the year is out.

– Irene Layton, Grimsby On your kite

I was intrigued by the Quote of the Week in which Rocco, a pet parrot, had been able to order melons, raisins and a kite, using Amazon’s voice assistant Alexa.

I could see why he might want to order melons and raisins, but I couldn’t understand why he wanted a kite.

Then the penny dropped. Those robotic devices only work when you speak clearly: he was asking for a bike.

– Mary Cook, Lincs Capital letter

Once again Edinburgh City Council have surpassed themselves by cutting funding for the Pilton and Muirhouse Communities services.

Twoofthemost deprived areas starved of much-needed help yet the council will still find money for the unwanted tram extension project.

– Ray Withey, Leith Fantasy land

Prime Minister Theresa May has conducted negotiations with the EU with honesty, dignity and integrity in the face of inflexibility and a lack of respect for Britain.

She did not deserve the shameful vilification she and her government received in The Post last week from two of your guest columnists.

If they think Jeremy Corbyn could do any better, they are living in a fantasy world.

– Robert Wilson, Lanarkshire