I MUST congratulate the Green Brigade on their intentions of mounting another foodbank collection in the run up to Christmas. (Evening Times September 27)

I help in an East End foodbank and all of my colleagues and I were completely overwhelmed with the support they gave us last year.

There were literary thousands of bags of food and toiletries, not forgetting cash donated by them, all to help alleviate the needs of those requiring assistance, particularly on the run up to Christmas.

Even the visiting fans were contributing eagerly to the cans and buckets rattling in their faces.

To all those fans, young and old, I give my heartfelt thanks, and I for one, was so proud to stand alongside them rattling my bucket in the hope of gaining enough funds to help the families enjoy a Christmas dinner, and perhaps a toy for their children. (This, by the way, was conducted on a cold, windy, showery day.)

Thankfully, we were finished in time to allow them to go and watch their team play their game of football.

Again thanks a million for your assistance and generosity, your help is greatly appreciated, not just by us at the foodbank, but by all who benefited by your actions.

Terry Lavelle, by email

AFTER reading the paper regarding the axing of the 4A bus service and possibility the number 49 bus service (Evening Times September 28), I stay on the route of the 49 and we are already struggling due to the bus company axing the direct link into Govan and the city centre.

I stay in Priesthill and after 6.30pm we have no service going through the housing scheme.

The elderly have to be home by 6.30pm and stay indoors so no socialising unless you can walk from Peat Rd which has the 57 bus service.

There is also no direct service into city from here as you are required to go via Silverburn and change buses.

My doctor is in Pollokshaws (Wellgreen Centre) and we have no direct link there either.

Years ago we had the 26 bus serving Govan with plenty of shipyard workers using it and the 48A which left for city centre and returned. It was also a well used service.

Now everyone needs to alight at Silverburn and change if travelling into the city.

I complained a few years ago to SPT who informed me that nearly everyone up there has a car so that is why they cut the service.

I am approaching 70 yrs old and unsteady on my feet so I am more or less a prisoner in my home at night.

John McGarva, by email

READING about the toilet leaking on the bus to Glasgow (Evening Times September 30), the bus transport regulator must take action and ban the bus firm from the road asap, and withdraw its operating license too ASAP.

This is a real health and safety issue and people will become ill.

Alan Hall, posted online