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"We need to take this river more seriously and to start implementing some of the schemes that might help prevent the largely preventable."

In today's letters, our readers discuss the politics of criminal sentencing, Aberdeen City Council's priorities and the NHS.

SSE Renewables is the latest organisation to join Opportunity Cromarty Firth, the consortium seeking a green freeport in the north.

A Caithness campaign group has warned that "someone will freeze to death" unless measures are put in place to limit the impact of fuel poverty.