Sir, – I can’t believe the news Inverness can’t cope with delivering babies being sent through from Dr Gray’s in Elgin.
Aberdeen Royal Infirmary can’t cope due to staffing.
What is it going to take, the loss of a young mum and unborn child before services are returned to Dr Gray’s?
Moray is a big enough area to command decent maternity delivery services and young parents need assurances that everything will be in place in their own area and not be depending on last-minute blue-lighting to Aberdeen or Inverness.
Time our SNP minister fought more for the delivery of new babies in Moray and not parcels. This is something needing to be addressed now.
The Scottish Government can’t blame this on London.
David Stewart, Former Moray councillor, Lossiemouth.
Politics must get its house in order
Sir, – One week ago on Saturday January 15 2022 we had two voters who qualified to vote in UK general elections and, one week on, Saturday January 2022, we now have three with eldest Kieran having reached 18 years of age – 60% of our household.
In the same way I doubt he will be that concerned that he can now get an online grocery shop from the company I work for, despite being able to be married at 16 years of age, I somehow doubt being able to vote in a UK general election is what most 18- year-olds look forward to being able to do.
Regardless of your politics, every week the prime minster clings on to office surely harms both the Union and the state of Westminster politics and the lack of an alternative to both the SNP in Edinburgh and the Tories in London should, I believe, be a concern.
It has been almost eight years since voters decided to remain within the Union but neither the Conservative and Unionist Party nor the Labour Party have come up with an alternative to the unreconstructed Union with the first past the post voting system, House of Lords unreformed in any great way, and no form of federalism even considered.
Have a go at me for voting for Scottish independence in 2014, but when the decision over who is prime minister essentially rests with backbench Conservative and Unionist Party MPs, and the Sue Gray report, can you really blame folk like my son Kieran for not exactly being engaged with politics generally and Westminster politics in particular?
Peter Ovenstone, Orchard Grove, Peterhead.
‘Madness’ to lose nuclear energy?
Sir, – Hugh Millar (Letters, January 22) picks up on Colin Young’s letter (January 18) which claims that nuclear energy has no place in today’s energy strategy.
He is totally wrong and I direct him to Google Grid Watch and scroll down to grid.iamkate.com. There he will get the giga watts (GW) of energy at any given time.
This is broken down into renewables %, fossil fuels % other energies % (nuclear and biomass) and finally interconnectors %.
With the small amount of wind energy listed just now that we are in high pressure – therefore little wind – the nuclear figure becomes very important.
It would be madness to do away without nuclear power if you want to keep the lights on.
Michael Baird, Dornoch Road, Bonar Bridge.