WE CANNOT be the only family that thoroughly loathes the intensely irritating Thursday night Poole fireworks.

To explain our experience, we are sitting here with a severely hyper-ventilating dog (we had to take her for an emergency appointment to be sedated last November) while listening to my council tax money going up in flames.

Forgive my lack of enthusiasm for this childish nonsense.

DAVID MACAULEY

Ringwood Road, Poole