Binge drinking problem is not new
I AM sick to the back teeth of the do-gooders complaining about excessive drinking and blaming it on changes to the licensing laws, i.e. extended hours.
What a load of rhubarb. The problem of excessive drinking is not new.
I remember in the early 1970s that on Friday and Saturday nights Horsefair in Pontefract was a battleground with the bus station almost inaccessible due to battling, drink-fuelled youths who had poured out of the White Swan and Horse Vaults public houses.
It was so famous that rival gangs from surrounding towns and villages would come for their fill and then spill out on to the street for the action. Fortunately I was a drinker not a fighter and kept to the other side of town.
ROBERT EVANS
Charlestown
Ackworth
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