No-one should have to live in a place like the Bellgrove Hotel.

It has been a notorious vermin-infested dump for many years and should have been shut down a long time ago.

There is a housing crisis throughout Scotland and Britain. But it has nothing to do with immigration and everything to do with the fact that since the early 1980s, there has been virtually no council house building in this country.

Thatcher's 1980 legislation that sold them off included clauses that prevented councils from using the revenue to build new ones and ever since, very few have been built. In Britain as a whole, there used to be tens of thousands of council houses built every year. But not any more, and not for over 30 years.

What is needed is a mass building programme of council houses. The knock-on effects of this on the wider economy would also be hugely beneficial. And if you're looking for funds to get it started--maybe we could begin with raking in some of the billions in tax that the super-rich in this country have managed to avoid paying up to now.

Charlie McGuire, posted online

I was shocked to read the article about Hillhead Primary School and Kelvin Park Early Years Centre. How can Glasgow City Council have allowed this situation to develop? It seems ludicrous that young children in the most important years of school are having to deal with these cramped conditions and miss out on basic facilities such at the library and not to mention not having enough toilets.

I have a lot of sympathy for the Kelvin Park parents but surely the best thing would have been to move the Early Years Centre. It looks like the council has been too scared to take on the parents and make a firm decision one way or another. Now the children will have to suffer.

Agnes May, Hillhead

No one was going to be very happy with the outcome of the council's consultation on Hillhead Primary School but it seems to me that the parents were left to come up with ideas to try to solve a problem that was of the council's making.

All parents want the very best for their children but in this case both sets of parents want different things. Glasgow City Council should not have let the situation get to this point.

The Early Years Centre is a great facility but the primary pupils need space. The council cannot make all the parents happy but I have yet to see them apologise for what they have done to this school community.

Hopefully the rift will heal and the problem will be resolved but the council should say sorry for all this damage done.

Eleanor McLean, Partick

I was so pleased to read that the Men's 10k is to be saved. The Women's 10k is an absolutely fantastic event and my wife has run in it for years but men are not good at talking about their health. The Men's 10k was just as important as the Women's 10k and I'm delighted it's been saved.

I hope men turn out in their hundreds to back the event next year.

James Mark, Shawlands