AFTER watching TV and reading your reports on parliamentary affairs in Britain I wonder if Nicola Sturgeon perhaps would benefit from a course in anger management".

She speaks of a "groundswell of anger in Scotland" ("Sturgeon's warning to Tories over forced exit from EU", The Herald, June 2). Anger seems to be one of her favourite words.

After a lifetime in business dealing with the public, now being a mother, grandmother, mother -in-law and great-grandmother I learned long ago that anger in any context is futile. It is much better to channel thoughts and energies into productive outcomes.

Has Ms Sturgeon not heard that the soft answer turneth away wrath?

Don't get angry, get even.

(Mrs) Marion Baird Bone,

Moat Park,

St John's Town Of Dalry,

Castle Douglas.