I HAVE a list of solutions to deal with child and teenage thugs who deliberately let off fireworks and do stupid things with them in the run-up to Bonfire Night.

The police should have powers to seize fireworks from children and teenagers involved in firework incidents, take them home to their parents and fine the parents on the spot and impose compulsory law-enforcing curfews on them, such as not being allowed out in the evenings during firework season.

And parents should be made to stick to them with threats of court action for non-compliance.

The police should also have the powers to force the child to tell them the shops which illegally sold them the fireworks or the addresses of those who gave them the fireworks and visit them and seize their fireworks.

Trading standards should be informed of the names and addresses of retailers who have been illegally selling fireworks to under 18s and have the powers to seize the fireworks from them and to revoke their licences.

Councils should be allowed to extend the powers in their anti social behaviour orders to include "nuisance by discharging fireworks" and evict families which persistently and constantly let their offspring create nuisance by discharging fireworks three weeks or more up to Bonfire Night.

This would hurt the thugs who constantly blast the skies with flashes and bangs from airbombs, whistling airbomb rockets and other nuisance fireworks, disturb animals and make people's lives a misery with this yearly nuisance.

ANTHONY PERKINS, Burnley Road, Accrington.

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