SIR: Once more we are all subjected to the ear-splitting 'bangs' from fireworks, before November 5.
The Houses of Parliament may have escaped the one single explosion, but the long-suffering public have been suffering ever since. Why do we celebrate 'Guy Fawkes' day anyway?
I could understand it, had he been successful.
J Miller, Bolton.
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