SIR – At a time when unemployment figures are fast nearing 3,000,000, Doktor Haze, creator of the Circus Of Horrors, has called for Halloween to be made a bank holiday (T&A, October 24).

So all those lucky to have a job will be forced to down tools in order to ‘celebrate’ this pagan ceremony and cost employers millions of pounds. Absolutely ridiculous!

What next, some nincompoop wanting to make November 5 a bank holiday?

David Rhodes, Croscombe Walk, Bradford