The news that Barclays is projecting a 25 per cent increase in the value of houses in Glasgow’s suburbs over the next five years will doubtless be celebrated as good news by many of the usual housing industry and economic commentators on these issues.

However, we mustn't lose sight of the fact that rocketing house prices only widen the gulf between the housing haves and have nots.

They are yet another sign that our housing crisis is not going away any time soon.

Shelter Scotland believes we must urgently look at our whole housing system to ensure it offers genuine choice for all of us at every stage in our lives.

We need a private rented sector that offers good quality, affordable homes on fair terms.

Above all we need a real step change in the supply of genuinely affordable homes available for social rent in places people want to live.

These steps would help ease wider pressure in our housing system and make it easier for more people to secure an affordable home.

Adam Lang, Head of Communications and Policy, Shelter Scotland

Perhaps the money that the council has made in fines from litter louts could be used to supply us with litter bins.

I can walk about half mile where I stay and not a litter bin in sight.

Anna McAlpine, by email

I note in Monday's edition of the Evening Times that Glasgow City Council earned £45,000 for flytipping fines.

I can't equate the value of this if an environmental health officer is on a salary between £26,000 and £36.000.

This means the income generated from fines is a pittance.

It hardly pays the salary of one officer.

Name supplied, by email

In response to your story about the high number of ambulance call outs to the Tesco call centre: call centres are the human equivalent of battery farming.

Richard Davis, posted online

I'm not surprised call centre staff need ambulance call outs so often: they can be little more than sweatshops.

I worked in a call centre where we were barely allowed to go to the toilet, which means you can't risk drinking too much and you end up feeling ill.

John Francis, by email