Travelling along the A23 in the Bolney area I saw two council employees wearing hi-visibility jackets collecting roadside litter.

Yet a Brighton and Hove City Council spokesman has said the road would have to be closed before its employees were allowed to collect litter from the Brighton by-pass.

As a final thought, perhaps the passing motorists could take their litter home instead of throwing it out of the window, thus relieving the council of the task of collecting it.

Woodbourne Avenue,

-Brighton