Points of view

Union The government is to aid first time home buyers in that part of the United Kingdom called England. But are its plans consistent with provisions on common taxation and economic treatment, of the citizens of England and Scotland in the Treaty of Union of 1706 and the English and Scots Acts that followed? Does anyone in government bother about the "immutable terms" of the founding treaty of our so-called United Kingdom?

Iain Galloway STIRLING

Weapons There seems to be an attitude abroad that airguns are no more than toys. But deaths and injuries to humans represent the tip of a very large ice-berg, with thousands of birds and animals killed or injured each year by airguns.

The sooner the Scottish Parliament legislates to tighten the sale and use of these weapons the better.

Bruce Henderson ST ANDREWS

Waves Can anyone explain why we export wave-powered electricity generating equipment to Portugal and don't use it ourselves? Then again, nobody gets a grant for having a wave generator located offshore, do they?

(Mrs) Annie M Oliver MONTROSE

Wind Is it too much to hope that the Scottish Executive and the Scottish local authorities will hold any applications for wind factories until the findings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh's inquiry are published in the summer of 2006?

(Mrs) SL Tremlett DUNS, BERWICKSHIRE