AFTER reading the headlines in the Evening Press about the proposed drinking dens for under-age drinkers, it makes me wonder where these people get their intelligence from.

Don't they realise that these young people are breaking the law as are the people who supply them with the drink?

These young hooligans should feel the full weight of the law, but not as it stands. They should be taken out of society for a long time and then their friends will think twice about suffering the same fate.

T J Ryder,

Priory Gardens,

North Lane,

Dringhouses,

York.

Updated: 10:32 Thursday, February 10, 2005