OUR Government wants to reduce anti-social behaviour and lessen the damage to health caused by smoking and binge drinking.

So what do they propose? Extend pub and club opening hours and allow shops, garages, supermarkets and off-licences to sell alcohol 24 hours a day.

And when do they suggest this starts? Six weeks before Christmas - incredible!

This is the time of office parties and the amateur drinker. Our streets will be full of PR executives vomiting all over the pavements and urinating in doorways.

What joined-up government thinking.

David Quarrie,

Lynden Way,

Holgate,

York.

Updated: 09:49 Saturday, November 19, 2005