ANOTHER Saturday evening at 10.30pm and what have we got? Fireworks. This is now the trend.

Yes people can see the beautiful effects and 'ooh' and 'ahh' at them. What we poor householders object to is the noise.

Surely in this modern day and age we can have the pretty starbursts and colours and patterns without the sounds of machine guns, bomb-like explosions and so on?

Come on you inventors, give us some quiet fireworks.

Mrs Mavis Simpson,

Dringthorpe Road,

Dringhouses, York.

Updated: 11:19 Thursday, November 04, 2004