Regards the community garden which was torched (Evening Times, Thursday), it is such a shame.

I just wish these mindless morons could be caught and punished in a severe and meaningful manner. Sadly, not much chance of that happening.

Stewart Douglas Bearsden

SNP hypocrisy

Did all those supposedly outraged by the burning of an effigy of Alex Salmond even notice when, in 2012, the Lewes bonfire societies burned effigies of David Cameron and Nick Clegg?

Or what about the Tony Blair effigy burned in Edenbridge in 2004? Or the strangled 'Bush as Saddam' effigy toppled in Trafalgar Square? And did they ever get around to condemning the Margaret Thatcher 'witch' death parties?

What we are now witnessing is the sheerest hypocrisy.

Keith Gilmour Glasgow

A heavy price?

Alex Salmond says Labour will pay a heavy price because they sided with the Tories during the referendum campaign.

Well, Alex, we paid a heavy price in 1979 when the 11 SNP MPs voted with the Tory Party to bring down Jim Callaghan's Labour Government. The result was years of Thatcher's policies: the Poll Tax, closure the coal mines, the sell off of utility companies. The list is endless, and that's before we even begin to consider all the job losses that followed.

The next time you start criticising the Labour Party, have a good look at yourself in the mirror.

C Milligan Via e-mail

Our VC hero

There are decorated World War veterans buried in nearly all of Glasgow's cemeteries, and most of their graves are neglected.

We have one hero, Private James Stokes VC, whose memorial in the Gorbals is honoured by members of the Scottish British Legion on Remembrance Day. He landed on D-Day, was killed in March 1945 and was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross by King George VI.

Thomas Donnelly Glasgow