Still Game Christmas special?

LIKE many I am delighted that Still Game is back on our screens.

However, I would have really liked them to have added a Christmas/New Year special rather than plotting other revenue streams like the SECC next year.

Anthony Martin, Ryeside Road, Glasgow

Faith restored

PEOPLE of Glasgow, I salute you.

I had a gear malfunction on my bike and ended up on the tarmac. I landed on my kneecap and broke it.

As soon as I fell off, a driver and a pedestrian had come to my aid.

As I limped towards my workplace, leaning on my bike as a crutch, two more people offered their help, and advised a trip to A&E.

I waved a taxi from across the street, and was helped by the most lovely taxi driver to get to the Royal Infirmary emergency department, where he wished me luck.

Another kind woman, seeing I was struggling, let me literally lean on her to get into the reception area.

The hospital staff were brilliant. I was examined, x-rayed, the wound was drained and I was splinted and given crutches.

Everyone was sensitive, reassuring and efficient and I was gently patched up. As I was leaving the hospital a woman in the waiting room came over to me and offered to call me a taxi. The taxi driver took me to my door, carried my bags made sure I didn’t fall off my new crutches.

Excuse me for being a tad sentimental about my adopted city, but I have to share the good amongst the depressing divisive news that is everywhere at the moment.

I was enfolded in the care of the people of this place and I am grateful.

It restored in my faith in the kindness of strangers and the ability of humans to take care of each other.

Ruth Morley, via email

Frack old mines?

I’M admitting that I really know very little about the controversy raging at the moment regarding fracking but my limited understanding is that there are objections as to us using it here in Scotland to power our homes due to safety issues.

From what I can see, a narrow pipe enters the ground and water is then pumped underground pushing the shale gas up to the surface for collection.

I remember when Britain was at the forefront of the coal mining industry - there was not a county in Britain that did not have mines. Men died with coal gas or cave ins, gas explosions, they dynamited underground willy nilly resulting in hundreds of deaths.

Could the remaining holes in the ground not be explored for shale gas as part of a survey? I’m sure mining communities would welcome the chance of earning a living from the historical endeavours of their forefathers.

Rosemary Keery, Gordon Drive, Glasgow