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Vandalised minibus

SIR, – How could anyone do such a thing as damage a minibus used by an organisation like Clan (Cancer Link Aberdeen and North), which uses the bus for taking cancer patients to hospital for radiotherapy (the Press and Journal, January 3)?

My wife has just spent four weeks staying with Clan, and the staff, including the voluntary bus drivers, couldn’t have been kinder.

The place was so peaceful.

I just hope that those who did the damage will realise what they did and hopefully pay for repairs, and that none of their relatives gets cancer and needs the help of Clan.

George Innes,

3 Bridge Street,

Portknockie.

Rocket attacks by Hamas

SIR, – Having spent a few months in southern England in the early 1940s as “feeble” (according to Dennis Grattan in his letter of January 2) buzz bombs and silent rockets delivered their unguided destruction around us, I can assure him that it is an unpleasant and deadly experience.

But we were at war.

Hamas and Israel are not at war.

Israel asked Hamas to stop its rocket attacks and warned them of the consequences if they failed to do so.

Charles W. Brown,

3 Netherwood Cottages,

Banff.

Homosexual lifestyle

SIR, – With reference to the letter from Lesley Findlay headed “Medical research on homosexuals” (December 31) and the one headed “Homosexual lifestyle” from the Rev A. Murray (January 5), I could hardly believe my eyes reading the ignorant and thinly-disguised venom from the authors.

What utter nonsense this pair are spouting.

Where, I would like to know, does Lesley Findlay get the information regarding the amount of diseases that can be passed only between men engaging in homosexual practices?

Yes, many diseases and conditions can be passed between one human and another, but they are not exclusive between two men, or two women, for that matter.

Where is the medical documentation that says actively-homosexual men do not reach old age?

I am an out and proud gay man who has been with the same partner for the last 13 years. I have reached the grand old age of 34 and, yes, I may not see my 70th birthday, but that will be down to my high blood pressure, diabetes, or high cholesterol, or whatever other reason, and NOT because of my sexual orientation.

The only thing the Bible proves (you know, the book that is well known for its vast wealth of medical health information) is that men have been having sex with men since the dawn of time.

I respectfully suggest that our two letter-writers get a life, and keep there noses out of mine and others like me.

Calum M. McLean,

Address supplied.

Guantanamo Bay detainees

SIR, – One can only suspect that our weak government under Gordon Brown will roll over and accommodate new US President Barack Obama and accept the prisoners ejected by the US military from the Guantanamo Bay detention centre.

Do we have one British MP who will stand up against this decision should it happen, and even resign in principle? Also, do we have a Scottish Government, or even one politician, or politically-minded person of standing, who would initiate an injunction that would ban any acceptance of the US detainees to Scottish soil?

D.R. Davidson,

6 Woodend Road,

Aberdeen.

Noise fromfireworks

SIR, – Once again, those of us who choose to remain at home for a quiet New Year celebration have been subjected to the noise of fireworks from the ill-mannered minority.

Why don’t they go to a public display instead of causing a nuisance in the middle of a housing estate?

For various reasons, some of us need our sleep.

The sooner the private use of fireworks is banned the better.

A.E. McKenzie,

Earlspark Crescent,

Bieldside, Aberdeen.

Undersoil heating at a golf course

SIR, – Reading your story (December 30) about undersoil heating being installed at a golf course, I realised how lucky we are in this country to have people intelligent enough to think of something really important to do with the energy being saved by the public fitting energy-efficient bulbs and cutting back on heating.

James Lovie,

62 Low Street,

New Pitsligo.