MY friend and I are both training for a marathon and we found ourselves a bit lost running through Bearsden - we ran from Bishopbriggs.

It began to get dark and we ended up running the back roads heading to The Tickled Trout.

The staff were amazing, they gave us tea as we were getting cold and let us use the toilets. They even offered for us to sit at the fire while we waited for a lift back.

Businesses don’t get enough credit, they were amazing to two lost females.

We would like to say thank you through The Evening Times as our local paper - thanks.

A very grateful marathon runner and Evening Times reader.

Pauline McDaid

Cash diverted

IT amazes me how much televised charity appeals for other countries yet this country needs attending too such as single parents, pensioners, the ill and more.

The televised appeals for other countries started by asking people in the UK to donate £2/3 then £5, now tonight’s appeal for East Africa they state your donations will help from £2 then up to £100.

What most people don’t know is no matter what you donate, the appeals will continue because what we donate does not go to the use we are told. In fact a large chunk of what is donated is grabbed by the countries governments before reaching the actual need.

So we keep giving on and and on to a charity that doesn’t get all the benefits.

At the same time we could be helping our own not, through government appeals, but a trustee body who means to deliver.

Willliam Beckett, by email

We suffer too

I’M sorry to read of rampaging youths causing damage in Crookston (Evening Times March 16)

Funnily enough where I live the same sort of thing happens from time to time.

The area used to have a police office staffed with over 50 officers. I was one of them, including uniform,Traffic,CID and Crime Prevention.

The office is now a shell and the sight of a police officer is as rare as hens teeth so I know how the residents in Pollok feel.

I hope Rachel Smith, a community activist reads this. She might be interested in knowing that the place I’ve just described is Bearsden and Milngavie. This area is now covered from Kirkintilloch sometimes by one officer who also covers Lennoxtown, Milton of Campsie and the outlying areas.

What I do know is that this area gets no special attention from police except of course when it came to wielding the axe on personnel working here.

I suspect its the same in other areas.

Johnny Mack, posted online

 

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