SIR - I would like to thank the joyriders who decided in the early hours of December 5 to take a car and crash it in the car park of Storey Evans at Greengates.

It had hit a number of vehicles and my car was a complete mess and smashed up.

This happened while my partner was working to probably pay tax for these juvenile delinquents to sponge off the system and have nothing better to do and go round damaging people's property, which now we have to pay for as nobody will take responsibility.

In the meantime our insurance will go up and we have to pay an excess fee, all in time for Christmas.

I hope you or your parents are reading this, and maybe if you are you should be ashamed. It is a nice family car that is worked for and which fulfils its requirements, especially having four children.

I am a full-time student who wants to go into nursing and I for one appreciate the value of having a car and nice things. Maybe if these yobs did something worthwhile in their lives then the world be a better place.

Miss Nicola Deegan, Delverne Grove, Eccleshill