READERS’ LETTERS: All law-abiding citizens should be welcome
Madam, – What is Dundee City Council’s Brexit working group chairman Will Dawson frightened of?
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READERS’ LETTERS: Stop passing the buck on UK’s drug crisis
Madam, – It’s an absolute tragedy that more people in Scotland lose their lives to substance misuse than anywhere else in the EU.
READERS’ LETTERS: Old fashioned remedies for drugs scourge
Madam, – According to published statistics, drug-related deaths in Scotland are three times that of the rest of the UK, and the worst within the 27 countries of the EU.
READERS’ LETTERS: Council is throwing good money after bad
Madam, – I was out driving between Forfar and Arbroath and Forfar and Montrose at the weekend and found myself thinking that Angus Council seem more interested in trying to save face regarding the huge mistake they made by introducing parking charges than looking after the assets they have.
READERS’ LETTERS: Work together to get renewables cable laid
Madam, – When I read how Angus Council and the Carnoustie Golf Links groups were opposing the laying of a renewable electricity cable through their land (Compulsory purchase order on historic links, Courier, July 11) I began to wonder if I was reading a master lesson on “how to do irony”.
Tee to Green: Portrush’s proper normality
As the whole world knows, the Open Championship returns to Royal Portrush this week after a gap of more than 60 years.
READERS’ LETTERS: A way around the referendum impasse?
Madam, – I find myself in partial agreement with those SNP politicians who argue that independence negotiations could be triggered without a referendum (“Referendum Plan B chilling”, Jenny Hjul, The Courier, July 10).
ALEX BELL: Nicola Sturgeon should listen to David Attenborough and make air travel cost more
In 1985 I flew from Dublin to Boston return for £400. If I did it today, it would cost a bit less.
JENNY HJUL: Scottish independence referendum Plan B is chilling
One thing the many contenders for the Tory leadership contest had in common was a determination to rule out a second independence referendum in Scotland.
READERS’ LETTERS: Falklands War wasn’t wholly unnecessary
Madam, – War may be hell but I disagree with Rev. Dr John Cameron (We need genuine patriots to show the way, Courier, July 8) that the Falklands conflict in 1982 was “wholly unnecessary”.