This is the view of Palace Pier’s general manager after footage emerged of a group scaling the underside of Brighton’s famous structure.

Anne Martin told of her frustration after a group were filmed climbing through the iron skeleton of the pier.

She said: “Until people get some common sense, I don’t know what else we can do.

“How many times do you have to tell people that it is dangerous? We can’t put up barbed wire.

“There are 86 signs up on the pier and we have 12 to 14 security guards plus 300 staff all looking out for this sort of thing.

“We get millions of visitors each year, but you always get two or three who think it’s funny to do this type of thing.”

The news comes after a man suffered spinal injuries when he jumped from the pier into shallow water on Saturday night.

The latest video was shot by apprentice carpenter and talented gymnast Ally Law.

He said: “I’ve been doing it for three years and some of the guys in the group have been doing it even longer, so to us it’s not dangerous, we approach it with care.

“We’d heard great things about the city and how good a place it is for free running, so we came down to check it out – and it was brilliant, we really had fun.

“The majority of reaction from people is positive and people are really nice about it and understand what we’re doing.

“We’re always polite, but you always get others who just don’t get what we’re doing.

“If you take something like the pier – we’ve been practicing for years in the gym to get that stuff right for when we try it on the streets.”

Mr Law, 18, from Southampton, was hailed a hero on the front page of the Southern Daily Echo in Southampton last week when he helped talk down a man hell bent on jumping to his death in Hampshire.

Mr Law said their activities were totally different to that of a man who appeared drunk to onlookers before tombstoning into the water at 9pm on Saturday.

He said: “What they’re doing and what we’re doing are two completely different things.

“We had no intention of going into the water.”