First noisy night of many

Here we go again - the kids around Shad Thames have got their hands on fireworks (the weeeee-bang kind)and are currently letting them off down every side street along Tooley Street.

We will go through this torture every night until about 8th November when the little darlings can't buy anymore fireworks.

Wish one would go off in their pocket.

I can see that they're annoying, and perhaps you were joking and I just don't share your sense of humour, but what a horrible thing to say.

I am with Boss St Bloke - their parents should be taking responsibility for them

Oh to be young again, you sound real grumpy! If you can't stand the noise then live out of the city, it is one of the downsides of living here, but so much else going for it than being stuck in the middle of nowhere!

The noise is irritating. But for me the real concern is the unsupervised letting off of fireworks. The other day I saw a teenage boy set off a firework horizontally on Crosby Row, mid-afternoon.

I hate living in a nanny state, people need to be responsible, sign of the times - thanks Blair!

I don't think anyone is suggesting moving out to the suburbs - living in SE1 is fantastic - but shouldn't the kids letting off fireworks be home studying something ? !!

The noise, the pollution, the transport costs - the list of things we don't like about London could go on for ever - but it is still the best city in the world - we forgive it everything !

Can't they be forgiven for being naughty bored kids, I grew up in the countryside and had the same ideas about letting off fireworks etc, does not change the way kids think just cos they live in the city!

The powerful fireworks they let off are meant to go vertically - they let them off horizontally down the small roads off Tooley Street.

JaneS - they are not just "annoying" but positively dangerous - if one of those fireworks hit a kid in a pram perhaps you would show less sympathy for the little idiots.

What I want to know is, where the hell they buy them from?

It's not that I have sympathy with them. I think that it sounds awful and I wish they would stop. Someone needs to do something, or, as you say, somebody might get hurt. But I do not wish them the sort of injuries that would result from a firework going off in their pocket. That's all.