THANKS to a team from the Evening Times, a group of Govanhill grandads and grandmas were treated like glamorous Hollywood super-stars at a recent party to mark the 30th anniversary of Jamieson Court sheltered housing complex.

The team featured Catriona Stewart who soon had the OAPs telling her all about the good old days while the snapper caught the magic of the moment on camera.

But the best was yet to come!

The editor then decided to mark the special day by featuring a group of the partygoers in a wonderful double page spread.

Let me finish by paraphrasing the Evening Times slogan - Nobody treats Glasgow folk better!

Phil McCusker, Cathcart Road

While having to pay frequent visits to Glasgow Royal Infirmary, I am annoyed about the lifts taking visitors from the basement to the ground floor and above.

Besides having to wait a while for a lift to appear, as the other lifts do not appear to work, visiting patients are having to share the lifts with patients on trolleys, which cannot be comfortable for the patient concerned.

What really annoys me is that the new Queen Elizabeth Hospital cost £842 million to build, could some of this money not have been spent on modifying and updating certain areas of the Glasgow Royal?

I would ask that the powers that be, who hold the purse strings for these developments, please spend some cash on the Glasgow Royal that services us, the people from the East and North East of the city.

Terry Lavelle, by email

Following the story about changing the annual fireworks date at Glasgow Green (Evening Times, Wednesday) to avoid clashing with a Celtic game, I never attended it, mainly due to living a stone’s throw away from the park.

I stayed 21 up a crumbling block of flats in the Gorbals where I could watch the event from my window.

But, as I grew up, I began to realise the bigger issues in life such as the shoddy flats I was staying in and the crumbling youth centre less than a mile from the green I used to go to as a kid to keep me off the streets. It struggled for funding year in year out as they blew hundreds of pounds of cash up at the bonfire.

As years pass by, the same issues that have affected the city haven’t changed but the ‘celebration’ of a 400 year old failed bomb plot must continue?

Michael Haughey, posted online

The football game should be changed - 5th Nov is far bigger than a game of football.

Stuart Houston, posted online