[Littlepeahead]

One part of Chelmsford town centre is a no-go zone on a Friday and Saturday night now if you want to enjoy a drink in a bar. It's full of teenagers and those in their early 20s who get pretty pi$$ed up before they even go into town and they continue drinking until 2am or later. The fighting, puking, peeing in the street anti social behaviour is nasty - and that's just the girls!

It used to be that you would go out for the evening at 8pm and the pub shut at 11pm so you never really got that horribly drunk - well not on a weekly basis,we all had the odd binge. If you wanted a big night you had to go to a nightclub, dress up smart and pay a an entrance fee to get in and if you were already drunk they didn't let you in the door.

I really think the relaxation in the opening hours of pubs has been a bad thing. The government thought that by allowing the bars to stay open longer we would become a nation of classy wine drinkers sitting in pavement bars sipping a nice Chablis like they do in Paris. Instead the A&E departments are nearly as busy as the Happy Hour focused pubs.