Gerald Spicer speedskating in 1994 (Letters, January 23) brings home how much we have needed a skating rink in Brighton and Hove since the Top Rank rink closed in 1971.

The only alternative, as Gerald said, is to travel to Basingstoke, some 140 miles there and back.

It's quite a record, 66 years skating and still at it.

So come on, powers that be, let's have a rink for those on ice.

-John Ovenden, Brighton