On Remembrance Sunday, my friend Barry Smith (registered disabled) and I arrived at the Cenotaph in Brighton's Old Steine with the poppy car.

This was to enable us to sell or give our poppy wreaths, posies or crosses to the citizens of Brighton and Hove and elsewhere who were attending the memorial service.

We were informed by cordial traffic wardens, who were operating under the orders of a supervisor in their office, that we had to park in Madeira Drive, about 15 minutes' walk away.

After protesting, we were allowed to park about 70 yards away to the north of the Cenotaph, next to the Sea Cadets' minibus. We were unable to display our wreaths for the public to view.

I would like to thank everyone at the Cenotaph on Sunday for their generous contributions and kind comments.

We are only at the Cenotaph for about three hours a year. We do not cause any problems with traffic hold-ups or block any pavement.

I would like to give a little advice to the "warden hierarchy" in their office. Don't pick on the Royal British Legion on Remembrance Sunday.

Get out of your office and take on the illegal parking and out-of-date tax discs in Montague Street and Montague Place, where I live.

Oh, and "Lest we forget", the mayor's car was parked about ten yards from the Cenotaph, unnoticed. Rather strange, don't you think?

-Samuel Tuck, Brighton Poppy Appeal Committee, Montague Street, Brighton