I have just received (although too late for me to participate in the first items), Brighton and Hove City Council's publication Countryside Events And News dated May to September.

In this, we are advised of the beautiful walk which can be enjoyed on Sunday, June 25 from Ditchling Beacon to Falmer and return.

How hypocritical can a council get? On the one hand, the council is encouraging people to enjoy the beauty of the South Downs. On the other, it has spent and is still spending thousands of pounds of taxpayers' money trying to destroy just that aspect of life.

It is doing this by attempting to get a monstrous stadium built in the Falmer area which will effectively destroy for ever the walk they are now asking people to enjoy.

-GK Summerfield, chairman, Lewes District Campaign to Protect Rural England Longridge Avenue, Saltdean