WE are always quick to criticise when things go wrong with the NHS especially hospital care, so today on behalf of all my family, I would like to give my thanks to all the staff who cared for my son on his arrival by ambulance in the early hours Monday morning to The Queen Elizabeth University Hospital firstly to the A&E unit then Acute Receiving Unit.

The care he was given from start to finish was so professional from all the medical team and each and every person involved from his arrival to being discharged later that day kept us fully informed at all stages of his stay.

The hospital seems to have had nothing but bad publicity since its recent opening so I think to receive a bit of good publicity is only fair.

Joe McGregor, Blantyre

INTERESTING to read about the Shieldhall Water Project and the state of the art tunnel boring machine which was manufactured in Germany. (Evening Times, Wednesday).

To think that not so long (in the 80’s), we were manufacturing similar machines here in the South Side of Glasgow in James Howden’s factory in Scotland Street.

Banners were erected outside the factory exclaiming: ‘Channel Tunnel - the digging starts here’

Pity our manufacturing industry has been so decimated by successive UK governments.

Anthony Martin, Ryeside Road

READING about Balmore Road and the persistent flooding (Evening Times, Friday), it is a disgrace but it's not confined to this road.

Maryhill Road and parts of Great Western Road were also flooded last Saturday.

A major factor causing this apart from the heavy rain is the council’s failure to remove dead leaves which block the gullies.

It never fails.Dead leaves and heavy rain = flooding.

Johnny Mack, posted online

NICOLA Sturgeon and the Scottish government have been quick to react to Donald Trump and his statement on Muslims being banned from entering the US.

This man is entitled to his opinion. He lives in another country of the world and is saying what a lot of people feel at the present moment.

Least they forget the investment that Mr Trump is currently undertaking in Scotland - such as his two golf resorts.

These require large investment, and provide jobs for many people and communities in Scotland.

Think twice Nicola.

Paul Coyle, posted online.