SO some Durham University students are spending their time pouring bottles of port over their heads at different locations in Durham City while wearing crisp white shirts to get the full effect of the blood red liquid (Echo, Dec 10). How proud their parents must be.

P Smith, Darlington.

SO Durham University students have found a new way to amuse themselves – remember their last outing of going out and dressing up? They are now pouring expensive port over themselves to get one up on Newcastle students who use milk.

Don’t these fools know what is a bit of a laugh to them means a lot more to others. People are starving not only in this country, but all over the world, and all they do is to waste commodities, As for the pr*t shown standing in the middle of the zebra crossing in Durham pouring port over his head, I’m surprised the driver of the car that he stopped did not get out of the vehicle and smack him in the gob.

LA McGowan, Sherburn Village, Durham.