What a moving tribute to Cilla Black to see the people of Liverpool line the streets for her cortege passing.

She was certainly someone who won people's hearts and was a true working class hero.

She will be missed.

C Rogers, Glasgow

IT'S not surprising that pupils from poorer areas are less likely to go to university, it has always been so.

When I was 11-years-old, 60 odd years ago, we sat an exam called the Qualifying that streamed the clever from the less gifted there was a system that if you got an S result S1 S2 S3 you went to a senior secondary school and if you got a J result as in J1 J2 J3 you went to a junior secondary.

I attained an S1 which meant I was deemed to be top of the class and was placed in an academic stream which meant I was to be taught languages, French and German and the classics a good all round grounding for entry into university.

The only thing was that coming from our backgrounds living in Calton and Bridgeton with skint parents, no one ever mentioned that the children had the brains and ability to go on to university.

No doubt had they come from Bearsden, Shawlands or the West End or private schools, they would have been encouraged to go on to university and mum and dad would have had the resources to allow them to go.

Rosemary Keery, Glasgow, via email

AS General Manager of a hotel in Kent which has recently hosted families from different cities all over the UK each week, while recording a well known children’s TV Show, I can say with absolute confidence and on behalf of the team here and the guests, that of all the cities each week that children and their parents came from, it was the Glasgow families who were exemplary.

Their manner, their behaviour, their general demeanour was a credit to the city and showed parents and children from a number of other cities how to behave in public. It shows family values alive and well in Glasgow, that seem to be sadly missing in many other parts of the country.

Ron Cox, General Manager, Mercure Hotel, Tunbridge Wells, via email

Good luck to the driver and his appeal for his parking fine.

Drivers are being penalised left right and centre and how are we meant to attract visitors to the city when they face landing a fine.

D Currie, West End