I READ with interest your article on the "city's dirty streets shame" I too agree that something has to be done to stop this.

However I for one was disgusted to hear a small "protest" aimed at our litter wardens taking in place in the city.

I would encourage that litter louts that cause such filth be caught and punished. We all have a part to play in keeping our city clean, those who chose to ignore that deserve all they get.

John Allan, Glasgow

All this breast beating about rubbish in the streets, who puts the rubbish there - it isn't the council. If the local people are too afraid to name and shame their neighbours then I pity them. We have some problems in East Kilbride but I have no compunction about reporting anyone who does this sort of thing.

Most of these people have cars and the local councils have disposal centres in most areas. So if you know tell, and any items you can break up and put in your car and take it to the local dump.

William Allan, East Kilbride

After reading your article regarding rubbish dumped in Shawlands and Merrylee and Great Western Road, I felt I had to write to comment on the situation we are having here in this Sheltered Housing complex in Govanhill.Whilst I accept that the behaviour of some people in discarding their rubbish is totally unacceptable, I feel that the cleansing department must also look at themselves and the service they deliver.

At this complex our normal collection day is a Sunday but three times in the last two months they have failed to turn up and I have had to phone up to get them emptied. On this latest occasion when I phoned to report a missed collection I was informed my call had been passed to the depot and would be attended to within seven working days meaning instead of once a week collection, it would be once a fortnight. This is totally unacceptable in an area which has been blighted by a rubbish and vermin problem and the only ones to blame here are the cleansing Department themselves.

Sheltered Housing Resident

Jamieson Court

Govanhill

So, the BBC want the over 80s (those who have survived the trials and tribulations that life has thrown at them) to now pay for their TV licence.

Shame on them. I suggest they put their own house in order first where savings would be astronomical when you consider how they spend our money at present.

For a start why can't TV and radio news and weather reports be carried linked to the TV studio. Is it necessary (certainly not economical) to send "several" reporters to all corners of the world, costing millions, when the same information could be acquired much cheaper from an agency saving flights and hotel bills.

I won't even start on the quality of "entertainment" we are subjected to at present.

Or the simple answer is to consider limited advertising.

FMK East Kilbride.