On Friday, October 14, roller skaters welcomed a new skating facility at Lancing Manor – the Starlight Roller Disco made its sparkling debut.

This is the second venue managed by Impulse Leisure to welcome roller skating facilities to their leisure centres.

The other venue stages The Giant Roller Disco at Southwick Leisure Centre on Saturday afternoons and early evenings.

Congratulations to all the management and supervisory staff who maintain such excellent roller sports facilities.

For the skaters, these events could not progress but for the well-accomplished roller sport skills and visionary enterprise of Martin and Steve and their team of valued helpers.

This team will run the new Starlight Roller Disco, and have also discerningly raised the Giant Roller Disco at Southwick to its present successful status.

Keep Sussex Skating believes that Brighton and Hove City Council should take note and celebrate the enterprising opportunities we have in our area.

Here is a chance for a hallmark standard of infrastructure for our city.

Such strategy and promotion could be staged in a bid to buck the present trends of recession.

The skaters of the city could raise an enterprise facet for both residents and tourism because, locally, skating is in the genes of our community.

Leisure centres can open their doors to promote roller sports while, most topically, Simon James, close to the King Alfred Leisure Centre in Hove, is proposing a stop-gap temporary ice rink for ice skaters.

My message to the council is, please get your skates on.

While others are left becalmed, the skaters are primed to speculate in order to accumulate in a forward visionary bid to keep our city and Sussex skating.

Patricia Ginman, Keep Sussex Skating