What a sad demise for a once great city like Brighton and Hove, when it pays homage to a murderer such as Patrick Magee.

The amount of publicity given to this event will make all decent, law-abiding people sick to their stomachs.

In any decent society, the meeting on Tuesday would have been met with mass demonstrations against it.

It shows how politically biased The Argus has become when it gives space to journalists such as Jean Calder, to vent her nauseating, Left-wing bile. Her article last Saturday was beneath contempt and doesn't deserve any more publicity than it has already received.

What's the betting that in a few years time, we have the likes of Jean Calder calling on us to apologise to the butchers who beheaded Ken Bigley in Baghdad and invite them over to the UK to apologise for their crimes.

Criticism must also go to The Grand hotel, which is refusing to place a memorial in the hotel to commemorate those who died there in 1984. Shame on you.

Tuesday's meeting and the events surrounding it was a sad day for the UK and, in particular, Brighton.

We are all the worse for it.

-DA Coles, Peacehaven