Logo no-go

Surely tax income for the Treasury cannot, in itself, be a justification for huge outlays and high salaries either on logos or bank salaries (Letters, 13 March). Mr McLaren's suggestion (Letters, 11 March ) that the design should have been open to a student competition should have been extended to include primary school children and a lay judging panel. The outlay saved would be available for more useful projects, generating similar tax income.

If the "thousands of people in the creative industries" (referred to in Mr Gray's letter) didn't manage to win, perhaps they should be working more productively? Any logo that has to be explained, line by line, to educated Scotsman readers is not going to mean very much to the average citizen.

COLIN EVANS

Netherby Road

Edinburgh