Are Fatboy Slim and The Argus engaging in a massive schoolboy prank together?

Is anyone seriously expected to believe that the recent large-scale disc-playing event in Madeira Drive was staged for the benefit of the "local people" of Brighton?

What benefit? Apart from coughing up £30 for a ticket and enduring horrendous weather, I suspect many folk were glad to creep home, unfreeze and dry off while, no doubt, many others at home plugged their ears to avoid the noise.

Let's face it: they were all had.

If Norman Cook really wants to serve his community rather than engage in self-aggrandisement, let him go along to his local hospital radio station, Coastway Brighton, and spend an hour or two DJ-ing, chatting and cheering up the patients lying in bed ill.

Oh, and of course, for free. That would benefit the local population.

Sheila Hutchings, Cuthbert Road, Brighton