So the 600 faithful went to the party. Or, more correctly, 0.24 per cent of the population of Brighton and Hove went to the party. How nice for them.

Since the outset of this farce, I have only met one person who vaguely thought that city status might be good idea, the rest think it is a load of old rhubarb.

The democratic thing to have done would have been to put the useless bits of paper in a carrier bag along with a few sticks of rock for the Queen to take home with her, thus saving on the postage.

-Chris Swain, Tivioli Crescent North, Brighton