Hoorah! It's festival time again - four fabulous weekends of visiting open houses and fun street theatre.
But I am intrigued by the claim that the Brighton Festival is the "biggest" in England (John Parry, The Argus, April 4), national newspapers quoting figures of anything up to 700 events in May.
In a quick flick through the brochure, I counted no more than 150 events, the biggest group being talks.
Is festival director Nick Dodds counting all the schools that take part in the wonderful Children's Parade or every stilt-walking troupe in the streets of the city?
Or is he conveniently adding back in all the events he removed from the "main" festival this year and relegated into a separate Festival Fringe, with its own brochure? Or perhaps even factoring in the events in the "real" Fringe Festival? Do we have one festival or three?
-Alan (Fred) Pipes, Brighton
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