According to a recent report, Glasgow can achieve long-term benefits from the Commonwealth Games because it already has a robust sporting facility infrastructure in place.
You would think the city’s health would be targeted as a top priority through increased swimming at Tollcross pool.
The reality however is quite different.
Council run pools open later and close earlier at weekends than they do during the week and opening hours are always drastically reduced at holiday weekends, when the maximum number of adults are available to visit.
The council’s attitude to promoting swimming to working adults is perhaps best illustrated by the fact that between mid-January to mid-February, Tollcross pool will be closed to adults for a total of seven days out of eight over four consecutive weekends to allow swimming events to take place.
No adults will be allowed entry to the pool during these times.
The council could quite easily open the pool for adult to swim on event days between 7am and 9am, but it chooses not to do so.
The fact is that working adults in Glasgow get the worst deal from the city’s pools and will continue to do so for the forseeable future.
Marie Penman, Glasgow
Titian should stay longer in Glasgow
It’s only right that the Titian masterpiece bought for the nation comes to Glasgow, so we should be grateful for its visit, but surely it could have been allowed to stay in Scotland’s biggest city for more than a month?
I’d like to see it on permanent tour of the country so that every area can benefit from having easy access to one of the nation’s treasures.
David Speirs, Glasgow
Megrahi case shows Scots law deficiency
I was stunned to read that Justice Minister Kenny MacAskill didn’t even get a second opinion about the health of Abdelbaset al Megrahi before releasing him.
How could he base such an important decision on one doctor’s opinion?
Whether or not Megrahi should have been convicted in the first place is a separate issue but there seems no end in sight to the mishandling of this whole affair.
The abominable attack on Pan Am 103 was terrible but at the time I thought that the Scottish justice system was one of the best capable of dealing with such a terrible crime.
Now it seems there’s no end to the way the handling of this case can show up deficiencies in our system and the way it is used.
Angela Smith, Dennistoun
Tesco staff deserve their savings boost
I was so pleased to see that Tesco staff are benefiting from the company’s success (Evening Times, February 5).
It’s nice to see ordinary people get rewards for their hard work.
It’s usually just the bosses with their bonuses who benefit from everyone’s effort.
Agnes Smith, Shawlands
Let the long-dead rest in peace
Our Scottish Government tells us dead bodies could be dug up to make way for fresh corpses as part of a grisly plan to tackle a shortage of cemeteries.
What? Wake up the dead to recycle graves? Forget it. Things should be left just as they are. Cremation is the only answer to this crisis.
It may upset some of the public but I’m afraid it’s the only way.
George Drummond, Govan
