I'M sure you will have received dozens of letters of similar content this week but I'm writing to have a rant anyway!

Bonfire night. Well let's call it what it is 'Bonfire week'. I live right in the middle of Cradley and the village firework display was last Saturday night.

I've got two yearling fillies who live in a field behind our house. We haven't got a stable, so I arranged to move them to a friend's yard on the Saturday. In the meantime, at 9pm on Friday, a major multi-hundred pound extravaganza went off a couple of fields away. Bangs, screams, rockets, falling debris... I had to divide my time between checking my terrified horses weren't breaking through the fence, with cuddling and reassuring two equally terrified and cowering lurchers.

Please in future could all organisers of firework displays, however small, write a warning notice, which could have gone up in the village shop. Or push a note through the door. Fireworks terrify animals and we live in the middle of the country. Please can people stop and think!

KATE MUCKLOW, Cradley.