The marshals would be employed to ensure people stand in orderly queues, that passengers throw away any bottles, cans or food into bins before getting into the cabs, and to preventing fights.

Hopefully, with their radio links to police and clubs and pubs, this will reduce anti-social behaviour and alcohol-related violence.
Cynics may suggest such authorised people might become the targets of violence themselves by people fueled by alcohol and resentful of anyone interfering with their nightly passage home.

As night club doormen often become the victims of escalating violence themselves when they step in to settle disputes.

But the scheme has been trialed elsewhere and more towns are following their example.

Let's hope that Aylesbury will be another town to benefit from this laudable scheme which police have also welcomed.

The news this week that a support group which has successfully campaigned to improve access for disabled people in major town developments, may have to fold because of falling membership is bad news indeed.

Were it not for Aylesbury and District Access for All some of the town's shops and banks would not have ramps, hearing loops, button-operated doors and speaking lifts. Not only that.

They were involved in access provision at Waddesdon Manor and Stowe, and consulted over new builds at Stoke Mandeville Hospital , Kingsbury and the Waterside development. Their work has been vital for community care - especially for an increasingly ageing population. They cared about our future and now it is our turn to care about theirs.