I read your front-page report about stag and hen parties’ behaviour in Brighton (The Argus, May 17) without even the most minute element of surprise.

This is a culture flaw reflected in the usual Friday and Saturday night city centre drunkenness. A stag or hen party is frequently a gathering of like-minded people, concentrated in a smaller area.

Sadly our youth and drunkenness culture has generated enmity further afield. Three years ago I did a circuit of the Baltic. A young Russian postcard seller in Tallinn, Estonia, spoke of violent drunken behaviour of British revellers. In Riga, Latvia, all the flags of EU members were displayed outside a public building, with the exception of the Union Jack. A policeman told me they were heartily sick of the parties of British youths who descended on the city, courtesy of budget airlines.

Allan Neil, The Crescent, Lancing