I HAVE been more disturbed than usual by this year's November 5. It seems to be getting more out of control, despite efforts to put a rein on it. Young people wander the streets setting off fireworks, even rockets horizontally. My 15-year-old dog shakes with fear every year.

I returned home at 9pm on Sunday to find that a bonfire had been lit by roaming vandals outside my back gate and wheelie bins thrown on it, giving off acrid smoke. Firemen were dowsing it down to stop the fire damaging nearby property.

All this costs much money.

It beats me how young people with so many facilities for leisure these days can afford £2 a time for something that bangs and goes up in smoke. Malcolm Adamson Mornington Road,

Bolton