How wonderful it is to walk through Brighton and be made to feel a potential criminal, to be asked why madam is walking down a certain street and to have armed police watching us as we walk along our own seafront.

I did not ask Blair and his followers to come to my city.

The £3.7m bill could be put to better use than security for an unwelcome conference.

How about a new hospital or a tram system or fitting grey-water systems to council housing?

How about a new school or more teachers?

-Elizabeth Wakefield, Hove