Letters..

Killer in midst

I HAVE a question for Jim Gillespie, chief executive of the Kibble Centre in Paisley.

You state that your staff and young people have been protected from risk at all times and that you would never jeopardise their safety.

So why was cold-blooded murderer Robbie McIntosh allowed to wander about the Kibble depot after it was reported to management that he had been bragging to vulnerable youngsters about his murderous past? John, Paisley

Help the homeless

WHILE in Glasgow city centre the other morning, I was shocked to see several young men asleep in doorways. Surely in this day and age something could be done to give them shelter and some food.

Each young man is somebody’s son. They are very vulnerable sleeping in the open.

We must urge the Scottish Government to do more to get them off the streets and given some dignity.

Catherine Taylor, Wishaw

Power slip

I WRITE in response to Paul Keenan’s letter, where he asserts that “Scotland will never prosper until we are in control of our own affairs”.

May I ask if he refers to the true control of independence by self-governing or the “pretendy” control of independence so loved of the SNP where we hand all the powers secured from Westminster directly to the EU?

G Aitken, Ecclefechan, Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire

Hitting home

SMACKING kids should be up to parents, not the Government. Since the strap was banned, schools can’t discipline pupils. Jane Stewart