The council's Environmental Task Force featured in the Evening Times (September 8) are a stroke of genius. I reported a massive amount of rubbish dumped by one of my inconsiderate neighbours about a month ago and they arrived within a day to clean it up, not a moan or groan heard form any of the team. If I had gone through the cleansing channels it would have taken much longer, and have waited weeks in the past to get things sorted. I think it's good we have this sort of provision in the city, but it makes you think if the cleansing department were doing their jobs properly we may not need an extra team to do what they are supposed to. The service which existed before the task force should have just been improved and streamlined to make it work better.

June Spalding, Easterhouse. via email

Celtic should be ashamed at paying their staff zero hours contracts. Have we not learned that these contracts benefit absolutely nobody but employers. Who would actually need a 4 hour a week job? The only thing they do is allow employers to treat people like slaves and cut down people's options for getting employment in future. It also means people cannot claim some benefits to help them out as they are classed as working, even though they may not get more than a few hours one week and 35 hours another.

I think it's good the union are trying to tackle this issue with the club, but it's not just Celtic who are doing this. It's all over Glasgow - the retail industry, catering, universities, colleges...Name anywhere and there will probably be staff working on zero hours contracts. It is utterly unacceptable that this should be allowed to happen. The council, and the Scottish Government need to step up and ban these contracts outright, instead of leaving it all the the Unions or the individual staff to tackle it.

Jeff Anderson, Partick, via web

I have given up on Labour. Watching members running down Jeremy Corbyn and destroying the party is plain stupid. Jeremy is like Donald Dewar - a good old time Socialist. Ian Duncan Smith s history and now Mr Hunt is dismantling our NHS.

Our previous Glasgow leader slashed our Social Work budget, hurting the elderly and infirm and thinking our new leader would right things makes me sorry I voted or him.

Alex Lindsay, Baldwin Avenue, Glasgow

With regards to the story about Tanveer Ahmed, who killed Asad Shah, appealing his sentence, who is going to pay for this ludicrous appeal?

This is a man who should never be set free.

As usual we the public are the mugs.

LJT, Glasgow, via email