For years, estates in East Brighton such as Whitehawk and Moulsecoomb have had problems of poverty and deprivation.

Brighton and Hove, through the New Deal for Communities project, has gained £47 million in funding for ten years to revive them.

Now this has been hailed by the Government as a model of how to spruce up other areas with problems.

That's why Cabinet Minister Ian McCartney was in Whitehawk yesterday to launch the National Strategy for Neighbourhood Renewal.

One crucial element in the revival of these estates is money. It takes large sums of cash to restore areas which lack basic amenities or which have had buildings trashed by vandals.

But even more important is getting the community involved. All the money in the world will be wasted unless the majority of people in East Brighton have the will to see it work.

There are real signs in East Brighton that there will be progress in the next decade for the first time in more than half a century. Revival will help the whole city.