I WOULD like to bring to the attention of your readers the recent trend by unlicensed restaurants in the Wyre Forest area who are now charging an uncorking fee when you bring a bottle to their premises.

On Saturday my wife and some friends went to a restaurant in Kidderminster and were charged £9 for opening three bottles of wine.

I feel if local unlicensed restaurants want to stop people going elsewhere in the Midlands for meals, where they are not charged uncorking fees, they should have a close look at this charge.

A one-off charge is, I feel, acceptable. But to be charged three times is a con.

In addition you are told that if you require a bottle of wine staff can go across the road to the pub and get one. They then put this on your bill.

Surely this means they are, in fact, selling alcohol when they do not have a licence to do so.

ANDREW LILL

Ismere Way

Kidderminster