THOSE against 24-hour alcohol sales: caring parents, children, relatives and friends of alcoholics, binge drinkers and louts; hospitals (A&E), hospitals (medical practitioners); ambulance service; doctors; police; supermarket staff (night shift); late night/early morning shoppers; taxi drivers; employers of labour (in particular of employees who operate machinery); council environmental staff; gardeners, council park staff; bus companies (late night/early morning) staff; vehicle owners; vehicle (night) drivers; those legally abroad at night on foot; pet owners; aircrew (airport check-in); legal practitioners (outside the justice system); prison management, insurance companies (mainly plate class); shopkeepers.

Also pub landlords who have worked out the risks and overheads.

Those in favour of 24-hour alcohol sales: insomniacs, alcoholics, binge drinkers, louts, brewers, practitioners of the justice system (vested interest); the Treasury (tax), this stupid Government; pub landlords (until they work out that the trouble, risk and profit is outweighed by personal injury and overheads).

D PRATT, Plantation Street, Accrington.