At last the decision has been made. The new breast cancer unit will be built in Brighton (September 27) on the site of Rosaz House - ironically, a site identified by the campaigners and not the authorities.

The decision made at a joint board meeting, held in public, of the Mid Sussex and Brighton and Hove Primary Care Trusts (PCT) is a decision for common sense.

The people of Mid Sussex retain the status quo, losing no current facilities, while those of Brighton and Hove do not lose the Nigel Porter Unit, which became a victim of its own success by simply outgrowing its space.

A new, enhanced centre of excellence will be built within 50 yards of the very efficient and successful Sussex Cancer Centre, which provides the essential follow-up therapy treatment to sufferers, not only of Brighton and Hove but also those of East, Mid and parts of West Sussex.

This conclusion would not have been achieved but for The Argus campaign, which collected 30,000 signatures in the space of just 11 days.

Nor must one lose sight of the efforts of the few at the forefront of the campaign who worked tirelessly throughout the past 12 months and are worth a special mention.

They are Jean Nells, who chairs the Friends of Nigel Porter, a lady rarely seen jumping up and down on the front line but always there beavering away, Leonie Petrarca, a great friend and very able lieutenant to the campaign's leader and co-ordinator extraordinaire, and that tireless campaigner herself, Jayne Bennett.

Jayne worked day in, day out, never contemplating defeat and sat front-row-centre at the Burgess Hill meeting to hear the result she had worked so hard for - "It stays in Brighton".

She immediately addressed the media to correctly describe the decision as "a victory for all - no losers, just winners".

-Brian Chatfield, Woodingdean