REGARDING John Wilkinson's comments on Tuesday, November 6.

I only hope all young teenagers do as well. Good luck to John, I hope his family are proud of him. I only hope we hear more about John in the years to come.

I have two teenage grandsons. I am proud of them, if I heard they'd had a beer or two I would not overreact. We have all been young once. There are worse things in life, glue sniffing, drugs etc.

Well, John, some day you will appear in BEN "Looking Back" and shock them all as a successful young man of 2001.

Nora Buckley

Chilham Street

Bolton