GLAD that Frank McAveety is making education the number one priority. This is totally opposite to Ms Sturgeon's crazy plan to introduce Scots language to all new school starters. I did note that Mr McAveety blotted his copy book by saying 750 homes will be built for Glaswegians and the thousands of new Glaswegians.

Anyone with common sense will see that most of the social housing policy does not apply to born and bred Glaswegians but to immigrants from all over the globe.

Families wishing to apply for what used to be called a council house will find that they have no chance.

C Sinclair, via email

I WISH to publicise huge appreciation on behalf of my family for the surgical and ICU staff at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow. My previously fit and healthy mother was admitted and was taken for emergency surgery.

She has since spent two weeks in ICU and has now been moved to the HDU as she continues to slowly improve. The care she received and the care given to my family has been second to none. Her treatment saw consultants stay hours past their shift into the middle of the night to wait for my mum to make it out of surgery.

There was kindness to my mum and our family at every turn and thanks to all of these people we still have my fabulous, strong mum. This new hospital has had its share of teething problems since it opened, and the staff of the hospital are those who have to bear the burden of these problems and plough on regardless. It is so common to see complaints about care, and yet so rare to see thanks and praise when it is so regularly deserved. That these people choose to get up every day and go to work to look after very sick people is why we still have my mum today, and for that we cannot be more thankful.

Angela Wilson, via email

GLASGOW’S care crisis does not solely apply to the Cordia services examined so incisively by Hannah Rodger in the Evening Times. Shifting the blame for poor service delivery on to individual Unison staff members is a craven act and no solution to the real problem which is the austerity programme of Glasgow City Council.

The closure of facilities for the learning disability community and the Charlie Reid Centre for people who live with enduring metal health issues are both recent examples of Labour Group contempt for their weaker constituents.

Despite being personally approached by carers the new leader, Councillor Frank McAveety, supported each and every one of these cuts so a large pinch of salt is required when he writes in this paper “Last week I set out my mission to make Glasgow a fairer, more socially just city.”

Tommy Gorman, Maryhill