Monday's article on dirty dog owners perhaps would have been better headlined as dirty owners of dogs.

It is not the dogs fault that we have their mess left hanging from fences or on the pavements. I am a self employed gardener and in a particular site in Mount Vernon I have to wear a full face mask when cutting a hedge because dog owners have taken to stuffing their mess bags in the hedge.

Don't they think about other people - someone has to cut hedges. As for the shortage of bins, that may well be the case in some areas, but are these owners not eventually heading home? Take the mess home and use your own bin, don't blame others for not providing receptacles.

Dougal Mackenzie, via email

People who take the trouble to put their dog's waste in a bag, can surely bin it at home. Glasgow's money should be spent on care for the elderly, repairing potholes in roads, and so many other things. How can it reasonably extend to the funding of dog toileting?

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I would like to thank the very kind gentleman who helped me against a 'racing' cyclist who banged on my car window saying 'I should see where I was going'.

I did not hit him or his bike, nor was I too near to need to swerve. It happened at the junction of Brown Street and Argyle Street where I was stationary. The next thing I heard was this huge bang on my passenger glass window from this aggressive cyclist.

The gentleman passerby in a dark suit saw the incident and told him off and I was too stunned for a few seconds.Maybe cyclists should have license plates for identification.

Kim Morley, via email

Regards comments in relation to G51 Free Parking that it is a basic human right to park outside your front door, the streets belong to all of us in common and are maintained from the common purse. Uncontrolled kerbside parking is a blight on the quality of life in Glasgow and most other cities.

In many areas kerbside spaces are filled 24/7, gutters and drains cannot be properly cleared of litter and debris. Even in the most moderate of showers, large puddles develop fairly quickly, making the pedestrian experience an unpleasant one. In 'uncontrolled' areas, such as where I live, people who neither live nor work in the area use the area for long term parking. Cars are parked nose-to-tail and it is difficult to find spaces between them to cross the road.

All areas of the city should be controlled and restricted parking and there should be a charge for using it.

Alasdair Macdonald, Glasgow, via email