We've not been able to recycle for some time now here in Partick. We used to have two blue bins between eight flats until they took one of them away a few weeks ago.

Now we have only one blue recycling bin for eight flats and it's not been emptied for three weeks.

Obviously we have to put all of our recycling in the general waste bins.

It seems like we're being actively discouraged from recycling by Glasgow City Council.

One member of the publiuc posted online: "My concern is food re-cycling bags being added to brown garden waste bins.

"I understand vegetable waste being composted with garden waste but bones, meat, soup, left over pickles and other miscellaneous waste - is this compostable?

"In addition, the porous food bags supplied by the council leak liquid all over the brown bin leaving a horrible smelly mush at the bottom which is difficult to clean out.

"The previous system of a small kerbside bin which was easy to clean was far more practical."

Wilma Jamieson, posted online: "Your story regarding Glasgow Life instructors paying a £100 fee: it is disgusting.

"We pay membership or fees per class to attend these groups. They should be covered by the fees that clients pay.

"It seems that the City Council cuts are forcing clubs to use employees to take up the classes to save them money.

"This is a disgrace and needs to be re-addressed as a matter of urgency."

Helen Hemphill, by email, said: "Your article on March 29 regarding the SNP creating more apprenticeships asks many questions.

"Firstly, governments do not create apprenticeships: that is the role of employers like myself who take on new apprentices into our businesses.

"Secondly, how many new apprenticeships are actually taken up by school leavers? Nicola Sturgeon talks about creating 30,000 each year - well, surely there is not that number leaving school and accessing apprenticeships.

"The question that has to be asked is how many are actually in jobs already and have been for many years then signed up to complete an apprenticeship qualification as it does not cost their employer for them to do so.

"This is spin on the largest scale trying to pretend that there are 30,000 apprentices being recruited each year when in fact the opposite is true, the majority are already in employment and only a few thousand are for school leavers, so why does the press never ask such questions when Ms Sturgeon starts her spin?"

John Gorman, by email, said: "With regards the teachers' strike in West Dunbartonshire, it's about time both sides sat down and sorted this out, the exams are only a few weeks away, our children need to be in the classroom."