WITH regard to Katie's letters (March 6) and her criticism of multi-storey flats.

I don't know which multis she stays in but the ones I stay in are as different as night from day compared to what she describes.

I stay in the Sandyhill multis and they are a great place to live. We have had new bathrooms, kitchens, windows and doors installed. The buildings have also been rewired, had new heating installed and, outside, the building has been recladded and floodlit.

Don't move out Katie, sit tight and wait for the investment to arrive and you will be as happy in your multi-storey home as I am in mine. FRANK, Sandyhills Bus firm hypocrisy

FURTHER to stories of woe regarding bus services, I recently asked the local bus company to move a bus stop from the middle of Helenvale Street in Parkhead to the bottom of the hill. The hill is quite steep and can be a real struggle for pensioners. Needless to say nothing happened.

Recently, they moved the bus stop from the site of the old Belvidere Hospital to make way for new housing and also, at the same time, closed our local post office.

A visit to my local MP, Labour's David Marshall, didn't make one bit of difference.

I suspect MPs, with their flash cars and big wages, couldn't care less about bus commuters. MAY MARTIN, Parkhead Council bottled it

IF Glasgow wants to improve its woeful recycling record then every supermarket should be forced to install recycling facilities.

I live in Cardonald and although the city council picks up paper and plastic and garden waste, despite giving us black boxes they long ago stopped collecting glass for recycling. The results of this short-sighted move can be seen in the amount of broken glass which litters our streets.

If I want to recycle my empties I now have to drive to Asda at Govan. On the way I pass an Aldi and a Morrisons store, both of which have car parks big enough to accommodate recycling bins.

Driving to the bottle bank only increases waste. Surely there should be more local recycling facilities? BRENDAN CAIRNS, Via e-mail Well done to troops

I WOULD like to offer my belated congratulations to all the Scots servicemen and women who were honoured by the Queen last week for the bravery they have shown in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Although I and many others disapprove of their deployment to these war zones our argument is with the politicians who sent them, not the squaddies on the ground. They, I know, are making the best of a bad job. COLIN DEANS, Garnethill A toast to the West

GOOD luck to the West Brewing Company at Glasgow Green (Evening Times, March 7). I had my 30th birthday there last year and the beer, the food at the atmosphere couldn't have been better. SCOTT McGREGOR, New Gorbals WHAT DO YOU THINK? Email your views to us here. WRITE: Evening Times, 200 Renfield Street, Glasgow G2 3QB. Please include your name and address. TEXT: key in the word 'etletters', leave a space then send your comments to 88010. Max 160 characters. Please include your name or initials and where you're from. Texts cost 25p at all times. HOT TOPIC: Don't blame graffiti on protesters

I'M not too bothered about the Go Ape plans for Pollok Park, but there can't honestly be any suggestion that the Save Pollok Park people can be involved in this graffiti in any way. Although I disagree with them, they're making their feelings known through the proper methods of protests and campaigning. PETE, Glasgow Clean up your act

MAY I remind the councillor Simpson that graffiti is endemic in this city, as the sorry example of recent racist graffiti on the City Chambers, and the even more recent gang graffiti on The Cenotaph show.

Maybe if the £4million+ Clean' Glasgow debacle had been properly managed, then the people of this city would not have to put up with graffiti in Pollok Country Park and everywhere else in this city! SYDNEY MERIWETHER, Glasgow Oxygen of publicity

THIS pathetic stunt has had far more publicity, and coverage than it deserves.

Coverage of such negative stories does little to affect the far more positive elements and spirit of in this case the Save Pollok Park organisation, a group of people who are standing up for what they believe in. PEOPLE POWER, Glasgow Desperate tactics

I DON'T approve of this act in any way. However, throughout the land, people resort to such tactics when politicians don't listen to the people. THE MISSING CITY, Glasgow Wasting a wilderness

IT'S unusual to see vandalism that you tend to agree with. While it may not be to everybody's taste, these tykes are keeping this important story in the news.

It's ironic to have a quote from Go Ape's Mr Mayhew complaining about environmental damage when he's trying to destroy the last piece of wilderness the people of Glasgow have left to them. MAX, Glasgow Mindless vandalism

IT'S good to note that people on both sides of this issue condemn this act of mindless vandalism.

Leave the park alone - it does not need this sort of behaviour. GAVIN48, Glasgow Firm plans to deface park

I'M not one to deface things myself, but is popular vandalism any more despicable than Go Ape's planned corporate vandalism of Pollok Park? EDWARD MARGERUM, posted online