Auld Toon News Today

In today's letters, our readers discuss the Queen, the politicalisation of bagpipes and cyclists paying council tax.

Scotland’s bard praised it for its “honest men and bonny lasses” and for generations of Scots, a trip to Ayr with its long sandy beach and charming town centre was a grand place to visit. Trooping off the train from Glasgow, countless holidaymakers would arrive at the town’s impressive Victorian railway station, cross its cast iron bridge and book into a room at the splendid neighbouring hotel. Designed in the French Renaissance style with delightful features that echo Loire Valle...