THE Operation Neptune pictures in last Wednesday's Evening Times showed a pile of lager cans in Springburn and Balornock.

This gives a bad impression, but a lot of the blight in these areas is due to lack of regular maintenance, for example, painting, cleaning and general cleaning of many sites.

High flats are being demolished, but the process has lasted several years, with the result being the surrounding areas are being left uncared for, as shown in your pictures of the site around the Red Road flats.

The areas are not all bad and deserve better attention from the various authorities.

Name and address supplied

Sore points

AS a woman of middle years and not a huge interest in football, I can't understand why the SPL should even consider docking any team 10 league points for any season because of the failings of the owners or 'money men'.

This punishes the fans and players, who have not been responsible for a team's cash problems.

As for the proposal that 75% of payments from the league be cut from a team for a couple of years, why would any prospective buyer want to bail out any club that has debt with those kind of restrictions being imposed?

Jo Hollamby

Partick

Good show

I WAS pleased to read in yesterday's Evening Times that Sir Cameron Mackintosh wants to turn the former Odeon cinema in Glasgow into a theatre.

I know there are other plans to turn it offices, but this building has been empty for far too long.

A theatre would be better for this building and would fit in with its famous past.

WR

Glasgow

Fly the flags

COULD the reason the Scottish Government does not want its independence referendum this year be the Olympics and the Queen's Jubilee?

They will make Scots feel proud to be British and wave Union flags, which will have Alex Salmond spitting mad.

V Reed

Glasgow