SIR - It has started again - all yobs should be made to undergo conscription, etc.

Speaking as an-ex serviceman, why should civilian life and particularly the police, off-load on to the military the yobs just because they are working with hands tied behind their backs?

Forget Bad Lads Army - it never happened like that otherwise the prisons would still be full of ex-drill pigs'.

The latest idea to fine the parents of bad lads will not work either but if the parents were made to appear in court alongside their yobbish children that may just cause an upsurge in parental discipline.

The thought of just appearing in court and/or losing time/face in the workplace would be a great incentive to the yobs getting discipline enforced by the family - just like it used to be.

For the persons out of work - the sick, lame and just downright lazy - the reduction in benefits would be vital to this type of discipline regeneration.

Phil Boase, Elizabeth Street, Wyke