I completely agree with Martin White. Brighton and Hove is a complete mess.

I too was born in Brighton and lived there until the late Seventies.

I still visit Brighton a lot and have family and friends there but it's not the same Brighton I grew up in and loved as a child.

It's a total mess.

Look at the West Pier, which I used to enjoy fishing off - now a tangled mess of twisted iron.

Then we come to the Old Steine Gardens, with their mucky brown surface, which was at once lush green grass.

Now it's a picnic area, with bodies lounging listening to loud music and sleeping off the previous night's drinking binge. No wonder the grass has given up the ghost.

-Paul-John Harris, Newhaven