I READ with interest the report from Jaqui Smith MP that there would be a crackdown on yobs with regard to fireworks (Advertiser, October 20).

Well since Monday, October 18, it has been firework night every night around the Woodrow area and probably many more as you never know where these fireworks are coming from.

The police will not find them as there are not enough officers.

The thing is, they are not yobs but rich idiots who have nothing better to spend their money on.

Who in their right mind gives money to a shopkeeper and then sets fire to it? Only smokers and idiots setting off fireworks.

The only people coming out of this with a profit are the shopkeepers who still insist on selling fireworks to children.

The only way to stop this is to make buying of fireworks by licence only and for displays that are monitored.

I am writing this at 5.15pm and there are fireworks already being let off.

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