With regards your story about shoppers being upset to see armed police in the Tesco cafe, I've seen armed police in Tesco before doing shopping and it didn't bother me.

They were in the Tesco cafe where they're allowed to go and one member of public witnessed them and felt uneasy.

Something could happen, say a security van gets held up outside, and it would be embarrassing if armed response came out to an incident with no guns.

There would be a public outcry.

Glen Ferguson, posted on Facebook

You don't start having fits when you see armed police at the airport with machine guns at the ready, so what's the problem with handguns in their holsters?

Graeme Thom, posted on Facebook

Similarly, in a motorway service station, I saw four armed coppers with holstered handguns and each with a small aluminium case.

As they explained to me, it's safer to keep the handguns with them than locked in the boot of the car, which in any event was full of other necessary stuff.

Worried? Not in the slightest.

Bill Drury, posted on Facebook

Instead of patients waiting in limbo for months for treatment at the sewage affected brain injury unit, why doesn't the NHS admit it has a problem with the building instead of waiting until the press put it out as being horror story?

The public would then know the problem is the responsibility of the government and not the NHS.

Irene Martin, posted online

With regards Silverburn hiring 'ghostbusters' to deal with the ghost in Silverburn: what a load of nonsense from a professional organisation.

Thomas Reilly, post on Facebook