wletters

Publications by New Journal Enterprises

Home

Archive

Competition

West End Extra - LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Published: 7 March 2008

In the wee hours…

• HERE in and around Covent Garden and Leicester Square we are increasingly suffering, and not just from “disturbance”.
Twice in the last couple of months, the first time Christmas Day, we have been awoken by a clattering helicopter and searchlight virtually overhead, for 40-plus minutes. The police explain, eventually, this is because of a major disturbance and that they have to pursue criminals wherever they may go.
Leaving aside the question of bringing the choppers in for this sort of crime, the problems we see on the streets early morning virtually every day makes life a misery. Amid the shrieks and screams of carousers, the sound of breaking glass, echo around the streets well into the “wee” (literally, in doorways, gutters, and elsewhere) hours till 3am or 4am. The widespread binge culture and violent drunken behaviour is fuelled by cheap drink and vastly extended pubs, clubs and hours – part of the legacy of the last 10 years of inspired national leadership.
DOMINIC PINTO
Bedfordbury, WC2

Send your letters to: The Letters Editor, West End Extra, 40 Camden Road, London, NW1 9DR or email to letters@westendextra.co.uk. The deadline for letters is midday Wednesday. The editor regrets that anonymous letters cannot be published, although names and addresses can be withheld. Please include a full name, postal address and telephone number.
Letters may be edited for reasons of space.

Comment on this article.
(You must supply your full name and email address for your comment to be published)

Name:

Email:

Comment:

Your comments: