Yes - The provision of an 'environmentally friendly' (with possible use of solar power and other heating methods etc) swimming pool on the ever expanding Black Isle is urgently needed for all age groups. Travelling to and fro to other pools is hardly 'green'! Our young folk are missing out on becoming potential Olympic swimmers! Captain and Mrs Kerr, Fortrose

Yes - A swimming pool is a sporting, fitness, leisure and safety facility for the whole community from the youngest to the eldest. Any community which is surrounded by water should be obliged to give its young people swimming lessons, any community which has a fairly substantial number of retired members should be aware of the health and welfare benefits to these people and any community which has a high proportion of young families should be supported in their efforts to maintain traditional family activities in a jointly used sporting/fitness facility. The population level is growing in the Black Isle and is reportedly at a level capable of sustaining a pool. The Black Isle Needs a Pool! R Kerr, Fortrose

Yes - At this time of rightful concern about life-style and health, it seems astonishing that there is not a swimming poll readily available in this area, in particular in the vicinity of the only secondary school on The Black Isle. Quite apart from healthful activity, there is the all important safety aspect of simply learning how to swim/keep afloat/help others. A point that seems to be neglected is that such a facility is for all ages, but moreover, thinking of older people who comprise an increasing proportion nowadays of the population, there would be the opportunity for therapeutic bathing and maintenance of a healthful approach to life. H M Keir (Dr)

Yes - The Black Isle is arguably the most prosperous part of Ross-shire yet doesn't have a swimming pool when, for example, Alness and Invergordon – a couple of miles apart – both have one. Even Ullapool has a community-owned pool. Get the funding in place, teach every primary school pupil to swim and make some serious inroads into the obesity problem while you're at it: job done! Highland Council funding would be needed to keep it going though as they're notoriously expensive to run. Susan T