THE announcement of "a new TV Scotland" by BBC Director-General Tony Hall is mere smoke and mirrors designed to distract Scots from the central decision that is that we are going to go on to get our main news on TV at 6pm and 10pm as "British" news (usually mainly English news). The option of Scottish news at 9 pm when it will be up against prime-time TV programmes from all other channels is a recipe designed to fail.

The supposed bonus of an extra £20 million for Scottish programmes is another sop, just as is the allocation of programmes made for UK audiences to have a nominal base in Glasgow, but in reality the vast bulk of the production costs are spent in England.

The truth is that of the £325m raised in Scotland through the licence fee less than £100m is actually spent in Scotland. As Denmark and Sweden and even Iceland have recently proved with their high quality programmes it is possible to be a small country and have good public broadcasting, but you first you need to control your own budget.

We don't just need a Scottish Six, we need a Scottish Broadcasting Corporation.

Hugh Kerr,

Wharton Square, Edinburgh.

NICOLA Sturgeon has tweeted regarding the BBC announcement “it doesn’t deliver everything that everyone wanted”. Wrong. I didn’t want a Scottish news programme at 6. If you were to take the SNP’s argument to its conclusion you could argue that viewers in Edinburgh don’t want to know about every event in Glasgow as those don’t affect them. Where does it stop?

Alan McGibbon,

108 Corsebar Road, Paisley.