MAY I please, through your newspaper, ask your readership why so many of them find the need to let off fireworks and have displays on evenings and nights other than November 5?

This year, they started on Wednesday October 31 (Halloween) and there were sporadic bangs on the Thursday night, a lot on Friday and on Saturday 3 November we heard fireworks going off from just after 6pm right through until after 10.30.

Sunday night brought more sporadic bangs, and naturally there were lots more on Monday November 5. However, a lot of people decided to have their displays on Tuesday 6, including our local primary school (St Ives) – perhaps someone there could explain to me why they didn’t hold it the night before please?

Yet more sporadic bangs followed every evening of the week after that, and on Friday 9 there were a lot being let off, and I sat through yet more displays and bangs locally on Saturday evening on Nov 10.

When I was young, there was something called Guy Fawkes’ Night, some called it Bonfire Night or even Fireworks Night, but it was always NIGHT – singular! The only exceptions were if November 5 fell on a Sunday, when displays were normally held the night before, or if Guy Fawkes’ Night was wet and rainy, when they were held on the next dry night.

Could we please try to get back to this concept? I am sure there will be many of your readers saying ‘What a miserable old so-and-so, what a spoil-sport’ etc.

All I can say to them is, maybe you have never seen animals cowering and trembling with fright under tables or behind chairs, or literally trying to climb the walls in sheer terror. I have seen this, and I see it night after night around this time of the year, as do many other animal lovers.

Please, please, for the sake of all of the animals, try to have your fireworks displays on just one night of the year in future – November 5.

Thank you.

D ALLAWAY, Ashley Heath Resident