CAN any of your readers tell me whether the highway code has been changed lately enabling certain drivers to jump red lights when it has been a rule since traffic lights were installed that red means stop and not go?

Every day on my way to and from work I witness certain drivers deliberately ignoring the red light and just driving through it as though it did not apply to them.

Do these selfish people not realise that not only are they putting themselves in danger but are also endangering the lives of other drivers and pedestrians?

I have witnessed a few near accidents and sadly the police are never around when these reckless drivers decide that they're too important to stop at red lights.

CB, Shawlands, via email

I WATCHED Parliament live and it was like a football match. The racket was terrible, like a pack of hounds baying at the sight of a fox. The speaker made me laugh when he advised "The Right Honourable Member" to take some soothing medication.

Now I know what being called to the bar means in parliamentary terms.What a rabble and they are running the country.

Alex Lindsay, Knightswood, via email

KEITH Gilmour believes the budget is intended to get people into jobs and not to take from the poor and give to the rich, Evening Times Letters July 14.

Can he explain the financial and emotional uncertainty surrounding zero-hours contract, no regular wage here, dubious self-employment, part-time work, workfare, soaring benefit sanctions, and foodbanks, and that great paradox of the "working poor" who have to claim benefits in order to survive?

He also says "the poor have little worth taking." He's clearly forgotten the extra £12 Billion in Welfare cuts and changes to tax credits which will leave many families worse off.

Meanwhile, demoralised Jobcentre staff are about to go on strike over Universal Credit - which is years behind schedule, plagued by IT snags and millions over budget.

Andrew Forsyth, Glasgow, via email

I WAS fascinated to see Tuesday's memories picture from 1955, the year that I was born, of the shipyard workers rushing home after their shift.

I saw that the ship being built was the Nevasa on which I travelled as a school pupil along with hundreds of other school pupils in 1970. I think it was down into the Mediterranean via Corunna and then on to Malaga, Tangiers and Lisbon. It brought back great memories.

Kenny Harvey, Garscadden, via email