Licence to annoy

I fully endorse the letter from your correspondent regarding licensing laws (Letters, 17 March). Today my wife and I had lunch in a restaurant at which we ordered a bottle of wine.

We asked at the end if we could take the half-finished bottle home and were advised we could, but that after May it would not be allowed. Did the jobsworths who passed this law consider who this would benefit and who it would harm? Don't they consider this as a gradual erosion of the simplicities of living and the small profits made by out-of-town restaurants?

D CAMPBELL

High Street

Burntisland