I WAS completely shocked by the story in the Times last week about teenagers using the public park war memorial as a meeting place for under-age drinking.

Quite rightly Annabelle Ewing and the town's councillors condemned these actions.

Hopefully the hullabaloo about it will have the prescribed effect and ensure that it stops at least there.

What seems to be missed here is the fact that the kids are getting the booze from somewhere, it does not magically appear.

It is either off-licence staff being hoodwinked or adults volunteering to go into the shop and get the booze for them.

In all probability it will be a mix of the two and really those who glibly go into an off-licence and knowingly buy booze for kids should look at themselves in the mirror. It is breaking the law and totally wrong.

Hopefully the extra patrols being organised by the Community Wardens and the Community Police officers will have the desired effect but I suppose what it will purely do is move the under-age drinkers to somewhere else.

The only way to stop this is for adults to stop purchasing booze for youngsters, if that happens then their supply simply will dry up.

MEMORIAL,

Cowdenbeath.