Thank your for featuring news of the Marine Conservation Society’s beach ­litter clean-up and survey (your report, 14 May).

Should charging for NHS prescriptions in Scotland be reintroduced to help fund ­special schemes like a Cancer Drugs Fund?

I am sure my old friend Jim ­Haynes (Letters, 15 May) will not be surprised to learn he was not the only American living in Edin­burgh at that time who was said to be an agent of the Central Intelligence Agency.

I wonder if the government is aware of the misery inflicted on the rural population of this country in regard to wind farms.

The appalling flash-mob which barracked and swore at Nigel Farage on Thursday (your report, 17 May) was a clear demonstration of one strand of the nationalist grouping that advocates the break-up of the UK.

The cathedral-like Amazon warehouse pictured in the ­Scotsman (your report, 18 May) is ­impressive, but how much of the stock volume represented within is fresh air?

Donald Trump said: “We will not allow the Scottish Government or any other party to undermine what we have created at Trump International Golf Links…”

With regard to your article, “The true impact of Dambusters revealed after 70 years” (16 May), it is perhaps worth noting that, despite the damage done to the Eder and Möhne dams and the railway bridges, farmland, power stations, etc, by the Dambusters, the raid did not actually achieve its objective, which was to destroy the armaments industry in the Ruhr area.

Surely the time is long past for the government to have come out with a statement regarding its policy about pot hole-riddled roads. They are a national disgrace.

It is incredibly brave of the NHS to announce that obese people, and those who smoke or drink heavily, will be denied access to IVF treatment (your report, 16 May).

Your report from Kabul (International, 16 May) recalls a visit to Afghanistan in 1996 to advise on a health programme.

You quote Boris Johnson, mayor of London, as claiming that Londoners are losing 
patience over why they are denied similar fiscal freedoms to those given to devolved governments in Wales and Scotland (your ­report, 16 May).

I write in response to your report (16 May) on the Land Reform Review Group’s desire to examine the redistribution of benefits that landowners are making from wind farms.

Cardinal Keith O’Brien’s time of private reflection and prayer (your report, 16 May) should allow him to return to Scotland a sadder man, but infinitely wiser about human affairs.

Having had the pleasure of a nice holiday in Portpatrick, the one disappointment I have had was to read the article by Allan Massie (Perspective, 15 May).

Changes just passed by the UK parliament mean that, for the first time, applicants for the post of England’s top judge must complete an 18-page application form, endure an interview and write an essay on a subject yet to be decided.

For years now Scottish people have been facing the ongoing scourge of travellers setting up illegal camps everywhere and unlimited numbers of beggars on our streets.

Last year, 3,000 people pedalled to Holyrood to ask for safer 
conditions for cycling.

Angelina Jolie’s revelation that she had a preventative double mastectomy was a brave decision but it surely underlines the need for a quantum leap in medical procedures.

In his letter titled “Focus on poverty” (16 May), Labour councillor Alex Gallagher ­attempts to advance the myth that those who support independence do so at the ­expense of confronting ­poverty in Scotland.