Sir – Can I just say how appalled I was to hear about the complaint made to the council about my neighbour’s children.

I can safely say that they have never been a bother to me, indeed they are friendly and polite and I like to hear them giggling and playing hide and seek when I am pottering in my garden.

Instead of sitting indoors all day in front of the TV or computer, they are outside, having fun, just like I did when I was a kid.

How miserable and thoroughly intolerant those complainers must be.

After all, Burnside is an estate with lots of kids, dogs, teenagers.

If they wanted silence then maybe they should move to a desert island!

Karen Griffiths, Skipton