Festivals for working class

When I read the story about the vintage buses going around the West End as part of the festival, why are all these festivals held in the West End?

The vintage bus trips never go to places like Easterhouse, Drumchapel. Balornock, Milton, Castlemilk, Pollok, and other working class areas where people had no option but to use buses.

It is either Byres Road or the Botanic Gardens or the east end of Partick where all this public money is spent on all the different festivals and galas.

I suppose Arts Council grants are being given for the concerts in Kelvingrove Park bandstand.

None of these events are held in the above named housing schemes because they are working class areas.

William Allan, East Kilbride , via email

More tea parties

I think the story about Greggs offering free cakes to people who host tea parties for lonely pensioners (Evening Times online) is a wonderful idea.

I have hosted similar events in the past in my local area, and it's always a really nice way of getting to know people. It creates more of a community atmosphere too.

Janet McKay, Knightswood, via email

Flats problems

Reading the story about Govanhill flat owners fighting the council's decision to demolish their flats (Evening Times, June 26), I think if they had worried so much about the building before then it wouldn't have come to this.

People need to realise when you buy a flat in a close your responsible for the upkeep.

It is just not on to keep renting these places out in the terrible conditions they are in. Greed doesn't pay.

Ann Whitton, via Facebook

Bank shame

In relation to the news that the Royal Bank are to axe hundreds of jobs, once again the rich and their rich investors do anything to make even more money without caring about the lives of ordinary people.

Over the last few years hundreds of thousands of lives and entire communities have been decimated by the emergence of this new and vicious form of capitalism where the human spirit is relegated behind the altar of profit and more profit.

I am now no longer a Royal Bank of Scotland customer.Disgusting behaviour.

B. McKenna, Dumbarton, via email