WHAT a brilliant idea Margo Grimshaw has come up with to cure the binge drinking problem in Blackburn town centre. An even better idea would be to close all the pubs, that would certainly solve the problem.

I came across this item from a church magazine a while ago and I think it's very true:

"We read in the papers and hear on the air of killing and stealing and crime everywhere.

We sigh and say, as we notice the trend, 'This young generation -- where will it end?'

But can we be sure that it's their fault alone, that maybe a part of it isn't out own?

Are we less guilty who place in their way too many things to lead them astray?

Too much money, too much idle time, too many movies of passion and crime.

Too many books not fit to read, too much evil in what they hear said.

Too many children encouraged to roam, too many parents who won't stay at home.

Kids don't make movies and they don't write books, they don't paint gay pictures of gangsters and crooks.

They don't make the liquor, they don't run the bars, they don't make the laws and they don't sell the cars.

They don't peddle the drugs that addle the brain, that's all done by older folk greedy for gain.

Delinquent teenagers -- oh how we condemn the sins of the nation we blame it on them.

By laws of the blameless the Saviour made known -- who is there amongst us to throw the first stone?

For in so many cases, it's sad but it's true, the title DELINQUENT fits older folk too!"

EILEEN EASTHAM, Milton Close, Darwen.