The festival of family fun incorporating the longest bric-a-brac stall in the world, which was formerly run on Madeira Drive and, lately, Hove Lawns, has for many years been a fund-raiser for hundreds of good causes and general fun for thousands of members of the public.

So, therefore, could this year's festival organisers please explain why this huge event was omitted from their festival programme and advertising was kept to a few hoardings on lampposts and word-of-mouth by organising charities?

-Mick Venour, Southon Close, Mile Oak