I REFER to a letter from Anthony Kitchen regarding wailing sirens, Guardian, September 16, and the response from the police, September 23.
On Sunday, September 20, I was rudely awakened at 1.45am by a wailing siren. Consequently I was still tossing and turning at 3.30am unable to get back to sleep.
I agree that they are needed at times during the day or early evening, but surely there is absolutely no necessity for them in the middle of the night while travelling through a quiet, rural village? Apart from the siren, there wasn’t another sound to be heard that night.
Maybe it was revenge on those who sleep, by those who wish they could – the curse of the night shift.
MRS D JOHNSON Barnton
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