I wholeheartedly agree with Lucy Ambrose (Letters, August 24), who wrote of the suffering caused to herself and her dog by the casual use of fireworks in our fair city.

Even on special occasions, I must admit to not really enjoying modern-day fireworks. The great explosive reverberations frankly frighten me.

We do not all see the sparks in the sky and realise there is some celebration. At such times, I shiver at night, waking to what sounds like wartime Brighton and Hove.

I fully support Ivor Caplin's campaign to have firework use regulated. I have run out of oohs and aahs at any firework display and I strongly object to my beauty sleep being ruined by some hooligan spending thousands of pounds on a thoroughly predictable display of misspent wealth.

Give me beacons and merriment around a bonfire any day.

-Margaret Pracy, Town Crier at Brighton and Hove, St George's Road, Kemp Town