I HAVE been reading in Friday’s Evening Times about the number of people in Glasgow who do not have access to the internet.

I have access via broadband and I have to say that even after purchasing a replacement computer, they are not missing anything. The broadband service in my part of the East End could not get any slower.

It’s as useful as a chocolate fireguard.

I have been talking to a few people in my area and they say that the broadband service they get is very poor.

Name and address withheld, by email

I WOULD like to point out that, as far as I’m aware, the SNP have never held any such pro-independence event on George Square.

Unfortunately Margaret Sinclair (in her letter on Friday) seems to belong to the ilk who believe anyone who supports independence for Scotland is, by default, a member or supporter of the SNP.

This is simply not the case. Had she researched, she’d have found that the rallies she mentions were from the Hope over Fear movement which is an amalgamation of many independence supporting groups - none of whom are actually the SNP.

She is also quite correct that the Yes movement (not the SNP) lost the referendum, however it is worth remembering that Glasgow voted a resounding yes.

Des Hughes, via email

LOOKING at your memories picture in Saturday’s paper of 1949 at the six poor wee unwashed children being evicted from the hovel they lived in in Shamrock Street, the hopelessness in the oldest girl's eyes was heart breaking.

It made me wonder what kind of landlord would throw them out of their home onto the street and what happened to that poor wee family.

I can only hope that life improved for them sooner or later and wondered where they are now.

I then set out to get my weekly shopping and was confronted by collectors for food banks giving me a list of groceries and toiletries that were required.

I duly went round the shop picking things for me and things for the food bank and as I paid for my purchases I could not help thinking that things haven’t really changed much since that pathetic photo.

I felt a deep sense of shame that we are allowing this to go on in Scotland. It’s a national disgrace and time someone somewhere did something about it.

Rosemary Keery, Gordon Drive

In relation to the story about the speed cameras on the motorways (Monday's Evening Times) and the promise that the route "will take 20 minutes off the daily commute between Glasgow and Edinburgh".

It's hardly surprising if all the speed cameras are to be removed 'upon completion of the project'!

It will become a race track!

Stephen Andrews, posted online