Congratulations to the College of Media Arts and its local community.

Its success in coming out of "special measure" should not be underestimated.

Schools need the support of their communities and communities need the facilities that empower them to engage with their schools.

The New Deal programme for East Brighton has provided just that empowerment to such good effect and must now be sustained.

I am pleased the pledge made to local parents by the education authority, that the college would respond magnificently to the investment and faith placed in it, has now been honoured.

-Councillor Gill Mitchell, Brighton and Hove City Council