Don't think Whittlesey is any worse than many other small towns on the youth-on-Saturday-night front. Yes, it's getting worse year after year - all those cute kids that found fun in the dancing 5 or 7 years ago have grown up and have nothing to do and nowhere to go. When the pubs stay open late for Straw Bear they think that all their birthdays have come at once. Holmfirth was more rowdy in 2006 than in previous years. Wath-upon-Dearn is "interesting" on a WEEKDAY evening! One of our local pubs has shut because of weekend fighting and that's in a very small town. But, Whittlesey is their town - we are the visitors and if WE behave the police can have no complaint about Straw Bear. And yes, the Folkies need to behave! I came across a group of Morris Men peeing behind a wall and later on someone in kit being sick in the gutter. Not very nice nor very polite to the locals. The majority of us visit for one or two days a year - they live there for 365! It's their town, not ours...

(and Bodger, don't rise to the bait - the sour grapes are so rank I can smell them in the Pennines!)