So, the ugly stepsister will not go to the Capital of Culture ball after all.

She will, instead, be kept behind closed council doors where, no doubt, more jealous schemings will be enviously obsessed over.

The glass slipper that is this tiny geographical area before the downs is a fragile thing that cannot take any more ugly great chunks being jammed into it.

I wish our leadership the humility it needs to put things straight now - and an end to grandiose schemes.

-Valerie Paynter, Clarendon Road, Hove