In the 'Gazette' of August 4, one of your correspondents referred to using the Bogton Road land to grow food.

Further to the ongoing debates and prevarications concerning the Tolbooth, it is obvious that it should be used and displayed as one of the earliest Forres landmarks.

I was astonished to read in last week's 'Gazette' that one of our Moray Council representatives appears to have a complacent and ill-informed view of the threat of closure surrounding Leanchoil Hospital.

Forres Highland Games is a tremendous event, and it's great that each year they continue to celebrate the humble message bike.

THE Outward Bound Trust is looking for the one million-plus people who have participated in an Outward Bound course since its inception in 1941.

Forres Academy's annual reunion lunch at the Mosset Tavern is looming on the horizon. It would be lovely to see some of the ex-Forres Academy teachers who taught there joining us, even if they were schooled elsewhere, as they would have a connection.

AS I stand down as president of the Rotary Club of Forres I wish to record my heartfelt thanks to the people of Forres for their outstanding generosity to worthy causes. Over the past year members of the Rotary Club of Forres have worked hard and been able to give out in excess of £40,000.

I come to Forres every year to visit relatives and I have just read an article in another paper saying that there is going to be a travellers site built in Forres.

I don't think Mr Wilson of Mackenzie and Cruickshank should worry about the flood scheme affecting his business, as some of his staff appear to be doing that for him.

I have lived close to RAF Kinloss for most of my life, and have never seen the airfield as quiet as it has been for the past few months. Should we take this as a view of the future?

I write to say many congratulations to Thirza Cruickshank and friends, and not forgetting the management in my plaudits, for the fine job they are doing.

I feel I must write to 'The Gazette' to express my dismay at the current image portrayed by many of the shops on Forres High Street.

As the Information Officer for Scotland for the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association, we are trying to dispel some of the myths that are out there as to who can apply for a guide dog.

In Moray Council's cost-cutting deliberations, the flood alleviation budget for Elgin and Forres must loom large!

Re: Forres War Memorial, I was sorry to see that the bereaved Nimrod families feel that I am, in some way, anti-Kinloss and the Royal Air Force.

I am at a complete loss to understand those who object, in any manner, to the proposed memorial for the crew of Nimrod XV230.

I enclose a small article that may be of interest to readers in view of the recent success of Forres Mechanics FC in winning the Highland League Cup.

I note with some disquiet a suggestion that a memorial is planned for somewhere in Forres to the crew of Nimrod XV230 that tragically crashed in Afghanistan.

I have just read the unjustifiably hard hitting letter in today's Gazette on the above subject.

In response to the article "Watchdogs discuss Nimrod memorial site" published in 21st April paper, we as families feel an urgent reply is required.

I would like to ask drivers on St Leonard's Road to be aware of red squirrels crossing during the next few months, and to drive accordingly.

If B. Johnston feels so strongly about the litter in and around Forres, I suggest he/she joins the group of volunteers who do their best to clear up the rubbish.

I refer to the letter of March 31 from Findlay Mackintosh, recommending not voting SNP.

While I do not condone littering in any form, I do feel that punishment is unfair.

Once again Moray Council are targeting the most vulnerable members of our community by stopping the subsidised meals for pensioners.

With regard to Mr Dean's letter in a recent 'Forres Gazette'.

Greetings to the residents of Forres from Mount Dora, your twin town in Florida!

Whilst sympathising with Mr Collis in his confusion over which recycling container is collected on which week, and his dilemma of not having access to a computer to check the situation through the Moray Council website, may I highlight the very prompt service I received from Moray Council's environmental services department when I raised an issue with them last week.

The Moray Council has received considerable criticism for its snow-clearing work in 2009/10, but we tax payers have to accept that the snowfalls were exceptional for this area.

As I stood waiting for my lift to work on Wednesday and Thursday morning about 6.45am I watched two council workmen load up their mini-tractor with grit and proceed along the already clear pavements on the High Street.

Our large, quiet garden is very attractive to birds for nesting. In the spring each year there is wholesale slaughter of the fledglings, with very few survivors.

I am writing to express my dismay at the reason given by the head of Forres Academy, Mr Findlay, as to why the school was closed last Thursday and Friday.

The proposed £8 million new Forres health centre to be built at Thornhill faces delays because of issues over funding.

Although we live Scotland we do expect certain standards of care. Our family live in a small town in Moray called Forres. Since Saturday, December 19, we have encountered normal winter weather ie snow, ice, black ice etc.

Have you ever noticed the council lorries with the big yellow thing stuck on the front?

With regards to the article in the Gazette last week (late licence for Tesco) although I am not affected directly by the proposal I feel that it is an absolute disgrace that not one of our local councillors saw fit to inform the community council or the people most affected, thus denying them the opportunity to express their views or objections.

I fully sympathise with the people living close to the topsy Forres Tesco for their justifiably loud complaints about the extended opening of this store that just seems to grow and grow.

Forres Academy Parent Council has been invited to comment on the proposals by Moray Council to make at least £20 million in budget cuts over the next four years. We are dismayed that educational services are particularly threatened by the proposed cuts.

I would like to thank the team from Forres Christmas Lights Committee, and volunteers, for their hard work in putting up the Christmas tree in such appalling, miserable conditions on Sunday, November 29.

Calling all pensioners and those approaching pension-age with access to the internet.

In answer to Mrs Maclean, who asked a very valid question in the 'Gazette' last week: "Why does our community council not know what is spent in Forres by Moray Council?"

I read with some dismay a recent article that raised the issue of massive cutbacks in RAF strength and funding that could have ramifications for Morayshire.

Once again a big "thank you" to the Round Table for the magnificent bonfire and fireworks display on Saturday, November 7.

I was infuriated on reading the article in last week's paper about the council cuts.

I wonder if there is anyone out there who is happy to deal with call centres for any reason whatsoever?

If Councillor Hogg is suggesting ('Gazette', October 28) that he is considering leaving Moray and setting off for Scargill country, that must be the best news of the year.

The health and well-being of the population in any area is a major factor in wealth creation for that area.

It's all very well the Grampian Police Crime Reduction Unit telling us to lock our bikes in the street, (Gazette, October 14) but where are the cycle racks in Forres High Street?

As a retired officer of the Forres Company now living in England, it is with joy that I read the story of Asa and Craig achieving their awards.

Having read the front page headline in The Forres Gazette, I find it quite ludicrous that the Hydrotherapy Pool has not been given the go-ahead after some four years of fund raising by the pool committee.

Are you passionate about writing for television? Do you have an idea that you are burning to tell?

There is no dispute that a new health centre is required, and to combine it with a hospital facility is joined up thinking, so far good. Where they are proposing to built it is questionable.

Yet another police public relations disaster, this from our local force, and it comes in the wake of an ignored harassment which ended in tragedy and the reports of no assistance to harassment in Elgin.

In light of the recent outbreak of E.coli at petting farms, some parents are understandably concerned about the risks to children from household pets.

Your readers know that swathes of the population are conflicted by the potential industrialisation of Scotland's wild open spaces – the impact of wind farms on tourism, fisheries and wildlife – and the accepted need to reduce carbon emissions.

With all the floods in the area I was relieved to hear that the new flood prevention scheme in Forres had worked successfully.

I was sitting on the train at Forres Railway Station recently, waiting for it to depart for Inverness, and couldn't help notice the derelict state of the opposite, now unused, platform.

The letter from Mr Donnie Williamson (Forres Gazette, August 26) raises some interesting points but is somewhat misinformed.