Re.
Alex Saville's letter (Asylum homes, November 26). It's time for those involved in this current relocation of asylum seekers to contact their MSPs and request that Holyrood now extends its accommodation offer to asylum seekers to areas outwith Glasgow.
Holyrood has a written strategy to welcome asylum seekers to Scotland (for Scotland read Glasgow). It reads: "The Home Office provides accommodation to people seeking asylum in a number of areas across the UK including Glasgow (this may be extended to other parts of Scotland within the lifetime of this strategy)."
The strategy to send to Glasgow began 14 years ago. No other city in Scotland accommodates seekers in any great numbers.
I'm sure a more suitable area, outside of Glasgow, can be found to relocate the 300 (Scottish Refugee Council figure) soon to be homeless asylum seekers.
Angus McKay Via email
Cycle path plea
Another exasperating morning of playing and cat and mouse while driving to work.
No sooner had I overtaken a cyclist and stopped at lights when, guess who appeared again?
The cyclist stopped in front of me and I was back to square one.
So then I am limping up Hope Street, with no room to move or overtake.
For safety and traffic congestion reasons, I really think, instead of creating more bus gates, we should be looking at more cycle lanes along the main streets in the city.
C Perkins Kinning Park
Sad reading
It has been heart-rending this week reading your stories about last year's Clutha helicopter disaster.
When it happened, it struck me that the name of the pub would become forever associated with tragedy.
JB Crookston
Murphy's law
SCOTTISH Labour Party leadership hopeful Jim Murphy has a nerve.
He appears to be saying: "Stand aside I'm coming up from Westminster to take over. One of you MSPs can stand down in 2016 and make way for me."
William Scott Via email
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