BANG, bang, bang.

How much longer have we to put up with this atrocity?

At one time you saved up for your box of fireworks for November 5, and, by 9pm, they were all used. Not so now. For weeks before and weeks after, we have to put up with this continual bombardment of noise.

I bet half of them don't know a thing about Guy Fawkes. I, for one, wish he'd never been born. When are the Government going to make them illegal -- apart from organised displays?

If it's up to this Government, the answer will be never, as they don't seem to listen to a word we say. I suggest that, for weeks and weeks, we go to 10 Downing Street and continually let them off there. It's not illegal. Let's see how they would like it.

The shops that sell them don't care; they're only out for profit. It just makes you realise that, after all people have said about the disturbance to wild life, to pets, to old folk and neighbours, those that set them off don't care a jot. Which just goes to show what an inconsiderate, selfish, mindless society we have become.

Mrs B Harding

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