SIR - It is absolutely obvious to any right-thinking person that the only people to hand in knives (guns or bombs etc!) are the people who have no intention of using them and only wish to remove them out of harm's way for other people.

Any person carrying a knife (excluding the obvious buy of a canteen of cutlery, etc as a household necessity or present) should be liable to ten years in prison because if they are going "tooled up" then they are obviously not going to a church singsong.

Phil Boase, Elizabeth Street, Wyke