Food crisis

Regarding your story about Glasgow primaries opening during the summer holidays to combat "holiday hunger": this concerns me deeply.

While I am glad to hear that these children will not "go hungry" it is terrible to know that families in Dalmarnock and Ibrox find themselves in this impossible situation.

It is a return to the 1950s and 1960s when a similar scheme was run in the city.

The latest statistics showed that four in 10 low income families were skipping meals during the summer holidays so they could afford to feed their children.

This is unacceptable.

As well as treating the symptoms, our politicians need to step up and come up with a quick solution to this escalating crisis.

Helen Devenney, Possilpark

Leave the EU

Labour designed Holyrood as a model regional parliament of the European Union, bound by the Scotland Act to obey all EU rules and regulations, even more so than some actual member states.

The SNP, which, like Labour, wanted us to ditch the pound for the Euro, act as cheerleaders for the Brussels bureaucrats but forget what happened to our fishing and shipbuilding industries.

The 1974 McCrone report on Scotland's potential wealth from North Sea oil and gas was suppressed by Whitehall not just to keep the SNP down but also to prevent Scots and the rest of the UK voting to leave the EEC in the 1975 referendum.

Think of all the billions of pounds sent to Brussels over the years.

Little wonder that President Obama tells us to stay and that Brussels supports Washington's efforts to get Ukraine and Turkey into the EU.

The price of oil may yet recover.

In the meantime we should vote Ukip for the Scottish Parliament and vote to leave the EU in the referendum.

Terence Moore, Petershill Road, Springburn.

Free books

Regarding the story about free books for homeless people in the city: Maybe it's a good idea but maybe the homeless need food in their bellies and a safe place to spend the night more than they need books.

Susie Rodgers, via Facebook