I AM sitting here again trying to console my new born baby, a baby I want to grow up happy and secure in the town where I was raised, however, yet again some mindless idiots are letting 'bangers' off in the roads around where I live.

No longer is this confined to the month of November, but something which unfortunately occurs all year round, starting about 9pm, through the early hours of the morning and intermittently throughout the day.

The people setting these explosives off are obviously doing it to annoy their neighbours, as what visual fun can you get out of a firework at 10 o'clock in the morning?

I can only presume that the families of these people do not care that they are messing around with explosives but then if an accident was to occur they would probably get away with it and injure an innocent passer-by.

The police do nothing and I feel powerless.

Totteridge feels as if it is going the same way as Castlefield, all due to a few brainless idiots.

It is getting to the point where I want to get away from this town and all the selfish individuals who reside within it.

Perhaps someone might be able to offer me an alternative point of view, however the way I feel now, no child should be brought up in this town.

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