Fix the streets

ANOTHER cracker from the greens, Nina Baker wants to rename some well known Glasgow Streets. (Evening Times February 13).

How about fixing the streets first and save money repairing motor vehicles?

Not to mention the cost of replacing maps, sat nav programmes etc.

Les Trueman, Glasgow

History lessons

READING about the proposed new street names, although I find slavery abhorrent, these people were the people who brought the wealth to Glasgow.

History cannot be rewritten, but can be learned from.

Look at The Mitchell Library for instance. They may have been Tobacco Lords but they donated the biggest single collection of books in Europe to the people of Glasgow.

John Campbell Clark, posted online

Part of our past

I THINK the streets we have are fine and these tobacco barons are part of our history as well.

I have no objection to new streets being given ladies names, but when you change names you change history and we don’t want that.

Kathleen MacDougall, posted online

Good people gone

READING about people in Castlemilk wanting to see more action from the council (Evening Times February 14), I spent my childhood in Castlemilk during the 70s.

The place was always bustling with people and we were always out playing in the streets which was our entertainment at that time.

It was sad when I visited it recently and noticed that my old school had been demolished, as well as Mitchell Hill flats.

Castlemilk has lost a lot of good people over the years who could have done a good job for the area but know they all live in other parts of the world.

Raymond Beatty, posted online

Live and let life

READING about the pro-life protesters outside the hospital (Evening Times February 14), they have a right to peaceful protest but they really should be outside Parliament and not intimidating women forced to make a very difficult choice.

I really can’t support people trying to force their will on others.

Live your life according to your morals and beliefs but also afford others the same courtesy to do so.

Alexis Miller-Drummond, posted online