SIR — Is anybody watching? I ask this because I was in the cathedral grounds on Easter Monday and for one-and-a-half hours, three Winchester men were drinking alcohol, sherry, in big green bottles.

When I first saw them, I thought, as they are sitting on the steps, the security camera on the corner of Market Street would pick them up.

No, I was wrong. They got drunker, and started swearing very loud. Still no-one came.

Then they started fighting and one was punched so hard, he fell on the grass among children and families enjoying their picnics.

There was a lot of blood and more fighting. People left the grounds upset at what they had seen.

Many people called the police. They turned up after it was all over.

So I ask, are the security cameras working or just a bluff — and if they are working, why did no-one see these men drinking alcohol?

If the police had come when the drunks arrived, and had taken the alcohol away, no children would have had to become upset.

And I don’t know if Mr Alan Weeks knows this, but most of the homeless men with drink and drugs problems get £90 a week incapacity benefit.

What other country would pay folk with drink/drugs problems £90 — plus they beg to top up their benefit?

If you are out of work or have lost your job, and you don’t have a drink/ drugs problem, you get £63 a week Job Seeker’s Benefit. What a joke!

Mr Miles, St Paul’s Hill, Winchester.