Is it part of the Capital of Culture campaign that the poor fountain in the Steine Gardens, Brighton, seems to have packed up working once again, despite its many restorations and that the water at the foot of it is full of rubbish and horrible algal scum?

The poor lawns themselves, meanwhile, become more and more scuffed and tatty now the fences have been removed and so many cultured inhabitants use them for short-cuts.

-Paul Davey, Great College Street, Brighton