SURELY the fact that Russian officials refuse to condemn the violence of their so called fans and come away with nonsense that they were defending the motherland proves what a disastrous error was made in awarding them the World Cup in 2018.

They should be stripped of that honour immediately but the football authorities are too cowardly and afraid of offending them.

Anthony Martin, Ryeside Road, Glasgow

WHY is the UK Labour party supporting the Remain campaign when they know full well that there are strikes going on in France, where the Labour Government there is attempting to bring in new laws making it easier for employers to sack workers and limit workers rights?

The much quoted EU subsidies that the UK gets are simply the remnants of the £18 billion the UK taxpayers give to the EU every year minus, of course, the millions we pay for an unelected level of bureaucrats.

Use the only chance you have of getting out of this shambles by voting Leave.

Alex Cruickshank, by email

THE Forth Bridge Crossing might be late but it is better constructed correctly than incorrectly endangering the people who would cross over it.

Kenneth McMaster, Paisley, by email

READING about people parking on pavements to avoid double yellow line fines (Evening Times June 12), round where I stay lots of people park on the pavement and one big house in particular has large unruly bushes growing into the pavement that is left.

Mean selfish people and if their cars are damaged that's the price of parking on the pavement. Tow them all away.

John McLean, posted online

I ALWAYS thought it was an offence to drive on the pavement and so to get to the point where he parks the driver commits the offence of driving on the pavement.

It is also an offence for a motor vehicle to cause an unnecessary obstruction.

So I would say that a vehicle so doing by being parked on the pavement is committing an offence when for example a pedestrian had to walk on the roadway

.I think the reason the police turn a blind eye is that it is quite a lengthy process if the driver is not actually seen driving on to the pavement.

Johnny Mack, posted online