READING the story on the crumbling tenement in Ibrox (Evening Times May 5), I am glad to see that the structural problems in Ibrox street are finally catching the attention of the newspapers.

My partner bought a flat which we subsequently spent several thousand on refurbishing and making structural improvements. Sadly due to a local slumlord (not the landlords in the article) who refuses to pay for any communal repairs, despite owning a majority of the flats in the block, the building is in an unsafe and rapidly deteriorating condition.

For the last three years I have pleaded with local council, landlord registration, environmental control and anyone else I could get details for to call this man to task and address his reckless disregard for the safety of the residents.

I even met with Nicola Sturgeon who told me that her "hands were tied".

I am a trainee doctor and the impact I have seen on the physical and mental health on the people who are given NO support makes me question how this can be allowed to continue under an SNP government that claims to strive to reduce health inequalities in Scotland!

Paula Beaumont, posted online

READING the story about graffiti mocking the Ibrox disaster (Evening Times May 4), every football side had morons who follow them.

The bigger the club, then the more morons associated with them. Both Rangers and Celtic have many fans who'd easily do this to either club, so nobody should be using incident this for point scoring.

Just condemn it and move on.

People who do this are not proper football fans, they are just eejits regardless of who they support.

Baz Mason, posted online

I WAS at the game, I walked home through the old Clyde Tunnel, by the time I got home it came over the TV that 8 people had died at the game.

I walked into the lounge and sat down to watch the reports.

Kenneth Kendal of the BBC looking grave announced that the number of casualties had risen to 45. That was one of those numbing markers that irrevocably punctuate the timeline of your life, the subsequent reports lifted the total to 66.

It's the biggest tragedy in the history of the Scottish game. For an all too brief period the hostility that pervades Glasgow and beyond was suspended, a disaster of that magnitude serves to focus all but the most obtuse on what's really important.

The bile laden bickering that characterises the relationship between the two fan groups was absent, thousands of scarves from not just the big two but all clubs lay intermingled in a silent tribute.

Some twisted moron has chosen to disrespect the memory of this terrible tragedy.

I know the guys I go to football with and they are all decent working men who will shake their heads in disgust at such a perverse action.

This graffiti will disgust every right minded individual, it's unfortunately the case that some are so consumed with hatred that they may condone it, and there are equally those who will see this as an opportunity to score points, both of these groups do nothing but disrespect the memory of those who perished.

Jim McEwan, posted online