I WAS astonished to read on your front page (August 29) claims that Justice Minister Kenny MacAskill wants to impose a levy on pubs and clubs to pay for policing.

If he is allowed to impose this measure, it will simply be passed on to people like myself who have worked all their lives, committed no crimes, paid full NI and tax and are receiving from the police an ever-decreasing level of service.

If he pulls this one off, his next great idea will probably be a levy for allowing your house to be burgled or your car to be broken into.

If he cannot run the police on the taxes we already pay, maybe he could consider a levy on the criminals, collected through the courts. This would possibly encourage him to promote more vigorous policing and prosecute more criminals, earning him more money and sorting his funding problems. Sandra Brown, via e-mail Share the profits

Great to see Kenny MacAskill is wasting no time to stamp out drunken louts, and make the club owners and publicans pay for it.

Of course the "poor" club owners and publicans will deny it's their fault and blame others, like the supermarkets. Don't make me laugh.

Let's put it to the test, and see who is responsible.

Close all the clubs and pubs for a couple of weeks, in Sauchiehall Street, for example, and see where the trouble makers congregate. I'd bet it would not be in that street.

Come on, owners, try putting a little of your profits back into the community. F M K , East Kilbride Term-time rubbish

IT'S not hard to notice that the kids are back at school. They have been back how long? Two weeks, and already the front of our building looks like a rubbish tip.

I have for the past five years been on the phone constantly to the school in question and for the past five years nothing has been done about it.

The school's view is that the shopkeeper should clean up the mess. We're not talking about a few sweetie wrappers here. It's about 20 fast food cartons tipped all over the place Monday to Friday. The only time we get a reprieve is through the holidays.

There's no point saying anything to the kids as all you get is a mouthful of abuse. How long is it going to take for something to be done?

If I wanted to sell my home I would need to do so in the summer holidays. I am sick and tired of this, and I'm sure I am not alone. Name and address supplied Green is scary

AS a proud citizen of Glasgow and someone who enjoys it's many parks, I have to say that Glasgow Green is somewhat let down by the drug addicts, beggars and alcoholics who gather at the main entrance.

What kind of impression must this give to tourists visiting this historic park? I avoid this entrance as these people can be very intimidating. Stephen Kelly, 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: Think again on Partick shelters

I RECALL that Partick is designated as an interchange station. Yet it would appear that passengers will be expected to disembark from one train, and, assuming it's raining, will have to get drenched while walking to the covered areas, only to get soaked again when they reboard their connection. Brilliant. Do Scotrail and SPT live in the real world and do the bosses ever use the trains? I suspect not. Harry, Glasgow Rain check

GREAT idea, until you have a bunch of drunken foul-mouthed neds in the waiting room. Then families and lone females get to stand out in the rain. Think again, chief executive John Halliday. Tam-m, South Side Language barrier

Perhaps shelters outside would be a better idea than spending money on Gaelic signage. Obviously those making the decisions don't actually use public transport. Stewie Griffin, Glasgow Spend the extra

Shelters are needed and it's ridiculous to think they aren't required. Did a builder say (with a sharp intake of breath) "that's extra" and SPT immediately minuted that platform shelters were not required? Daz, Glasgow Glaring error

THIS glaringly obvious oversight is a clear sign that the contractors and architects should have been Glasgow based, and known the history of Partick and a bit more about its people and its needs.

SPT management need to actually use the trains and experience the hitches and glitches at all the stations having refurbishment or major rebuilds carried out. Do the architects and engineers realise just how many days of the year it rains in Glasgow?

I think not, if they are denying such a basic and crucial facility. Give us our shelters and stop all this messing about! People Power, Glasgow Canopies too dear

IF the Partick Station complainers can show that this is the norm at all suburban stations they may have a point.

But most have a ticket office on one platform and a bus-stop style shelter on the other.

That is all that is required, since full canopies would be a considerable expense. They are sufficient for most commuters. Richard A McKenzie, Giffnock