Councillor Taylor really should stop jumping on bandwagons. It's a dangerous pasttime and, sooner or later, he's going to do himself a nasty injury.
As regards the issue of "Dancing children" being refused cash (Argus, June 26), he has failed to recognise the aim of Brighton and Hove City Council is to enable resources to be used to benefit a wider range of children and young people.
Developments such as Blatchington Mill School becoming a specialist school of performing arts, the Brighton Rocks performance at the Millennium Dome, the achievements of the Music Service, to name but a fraction of what is happening, show his allegations of "cultural impoverishment" are unfounded.
The aim of the bid to be European City of Culture (in 2008, actually, not 2007) is to increase participation in cultural activities still further, on the basis that art is for all, not just an elite.
-Catherine Shelley, lead councillor for young people, Brighton and Hove City Council
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