I AM amazed at the recent aspersions on the young people of the Fashionable Winos band.

I know these lads personally, as I employ three of them in part-time jobs and they are a credit to themselves and their parents. I know the name of the band may offend some people, but they are not alcoholics, as I have found when I have been out in the bar with them. I am a young at heart 47-year-old and they personally all respect me and their co-workers.

I wish them all well in promoting their band and all this publicity can only have a beneficial effect on their future.

SHARON PEMBERTON, Whitendale Crescent, Blackburn.