I READ with interest the funding boost of £34,000 given to Glasgow and Loch Lomond to fund short breaks.

Also marketing organisations Glasgow City Marketing Bureau and Love Loch Lomond have teamed up with Scotrail for a £68,000 marketing campaign. While this is welcoming to all let's hope Scotrail get their trains running regularly to bring the tourists here.

At the moment the service to and from Balloch in Loch Lomond is marred with cancellations, trains that don't turn up with no reason to commuters as to why?

We mainly have trains coming into Balloch and back into Queen Street with no toilets? Cleaner trains too need to be addressed.

I would like to see major changes into the running of the trains to Balloch firstly make sure trains are constantly running and on time, make sure other provisions are in place if trains are off nine times out of 10 alternative transport is never put on and you are left to your own devices?

I do hope we can look forward to a better train service here in Balloch after all we are in one of the most beautiful parts of the world and tourists love it here, having a first class train service to get them here would be equally welcoming.

J Quinn, via email

I am a council tax payer in Glasgow and I am disgusted that the council are up in arms re spending cut backs .

One blatant drain of our resources is City parking which has been bailed out with millions of tax payers money and remain unable to turn a profit . I have just learned that 6 members of our 'esteem ' council are paid more than our first minister!

I have one idea where cut backs should be made , have you?

Carole W Stewart, via email

Now, with the news that Cordia is being wound up, the Glasgow electorate can sit back and watch its councillors hand out multi thousands of pounds in redundancy payments to Cordia's senior management personnel only to re--hire them a few weeks later. I gave up long ago expecting common sense from Glasgow council and I know, once again, they will not fail me on this issue.

Alex Cruickshank, via email

Well done Bill Kidd on the Nobel Peace Prize nomination. It shows Scotland is at last being recognised as a country and not as a region or province of England.

If Westminster so desperately wants to keep its nuclear subs and American leased Trident missiles.....yes that's right leased..... then it should dock them on the Thames, we don't want or need them, no-one does.

£100bn plus for a missile system that will never ever be used is madness. Even if Cameron was insane enough to want to push the red button he would first have to get permission from Washington,

independent system my foot!

Scrap these pointless weapons now.

Jay Beer, posted online