ONE of the education successes my children experienced was that throughout their school life they were bombarded with almost daily lectures on the evils of smoking and the risk to health.

It strikes me that a similar daily dose of 'anti-litter' lectures would go a long way to breaking the cycle of repeat offending.

I witnessed a child proffering a crisp packet to her mum for disposal, only to be told in a loud and threatening voice: "Throw it on the floor."

This sort of attitude is why I think it will take a massive educational effort to break the cycle of littering.

It will be a struggle to get the children educating the 'parent.' But if the will is there, I think it would eventually work.

D PRATT (Mr), Plantation Street, Accrington.