THE news of a bail-out of £10bn to the IMF to prop up the euro is alarming ("Tory backbench enraged by £10 bn handout to IMF", The Herald, April 21).
The fact that the amount is cynically set to below the level required to trigger a Parliamentary vote is hardly the act of an open and transparent government, which now requires the Department of Communities and Local Government and arm's-length bodies to provide a monthly list of local government expenditure in excess of £500 . Prudence and transparency are being selectively applied.
David G Will,
24 Cauldstream Place, Milngavie.
I WAS saddened that your report makes no mention of the seven firefighters who died at the fire at Sher Bros in Kilbirnie Street on August 25, 1972 ("Court hears firefighters died 'for no god reason'", The Herald, April 21). Your writer mistakenly refers to the loss of four firefighters at a warehouse fire in Atherstone-on-Stour in Warwickshire, on November 2, 2007, as the worst peacetime tragedy for the British fire service since Cheapside in 1960.
David G Will,
(Former Retained Fireman), 24 Cauldstream Place, Milngavie.
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