Most residents wouldn't recognise Hove seafront from your recent front page coverage (The Argus, July 25).
At 6.30pm on the day The Argus featured Mr Kingston absurdly presenting Hove seafront as a "no-go area", we took a photograph.
It shows the beach and prom thronged with people of all ages enjoying themselves without a care in the world.
Of course there's work to do there. And we're doing it, every day. Let's get real. Things decay. We repair them.
People drop tons of litter. We pick it up. They behave badly. We're tackling it.
-Councillor Gill Mitchell, chair, environment committee, Brighton and Hove City Council
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