Although we have been awarded city status, we will always be two separate towns.

Our present council has shown it cannot run one, let alone two.

If we do get an elected mayor, his or her first job should be to set up two management teams, one to run Brighton and the other to run Hove.

The only thing we can be sure of at present is our council tax will increase annually. What we need is some competition.

-Tommy Carr, Goldstone Valley