I THINK that parents and families should be severely punished by the police, councils and the courts for their children's mindless behaviour and actions as a result of firework misuse, with mandatory and compulsory law-enforced electronic tagging, child curfews, parenting orders and anti-social behaviour orders plus the threat of their kids being taken away if they do not comply with them.

The council should also have powers to evict from their houses single young people, teenagers, parents and families who allow anti-social children and teenagers to misuse fireworks creating nuisance, personal injury and property damage and Trading Standards should have powers to confiscate and seize fireworks from retailers involved in under-age sales and to refuse to register and licence their shop premises in the future for selling fireworks.

ANTHONY PERKINS, Plantation Street, Accrington.