While many campaign to end the manufacture of weapons in Moulsecoomb or protest about siting extra waste dumps at Hollingdean - quite rightly and good luck to all involved - we need help here in Moulsecoomb.

We already have telephone masts and a waste-processing plant. They are sited a few feet from two nursery schools, playschools and after-school clubs, the junior and infants school and two homes for the elderly adjoining our church grounds, all slap bang in the middle of 10,000 homes.

Some children are suffering headaches and rashes and feeling out-of-sorts already, living only a few feet from these monstrosities. Whether the two are connected, I do not know.

When it comes to siting waste depots and pulsating masts which give out the same frequencies as brain waves, so inhibiting brain functions short-term and heavens knows what long-term, are 'Scoombers thought inferior to other Brightonians?

Does Brighton and Hove City Council think it can put what it likes here because residents don't shout as loudly as their well-heeled counterparts?

Moulsecoomb needs regeneration, so give them the rubbish - is that the attitude of the council?

A waste-processing depot stands at the gateway to Moulsecoomb. How welcoming to potential investors is that? The council's chief executive, Alan MacCarthy, grew up here, yet appears to have turned his back on us, treating Moulsecoomb as the rubbish dump of the city.

The council wants to be seen to be recycling a higher quota so it has been suggested some of the rubbish comes from outside Brighton.

There have almost been dozens of accidents where gigantic lorries block both lanes of Moulsecoomb Way and traffic cannot turn the corner safely or pass.

This often happens while children are trying to cross the road to school.

The incessant noise and fumes must be detrimental to health.

The accountable bodies need to be taken to task for granting planning permission for such monstrosities. Even the Romans put their rubbish dumps outside their cities.

Hollingdean is a future threat but we are suffering the nightmare now.

is already much below the national average.

-Mary Funnell, North Moulsecoomb, Brighton