I WAS brought up and married in Brighton.

When my parents died in the 1960s my husband and I emigrated to Australia.

Every five years we come to see my sister in Brighton and my husband’s brother in London.

This will be our last visit to Brighton. The place is dirty. The streets are littered with rubbish. 

There are beggars on every street corner.

People on drugs and drink aggressively asking for money. People riding bicycles on the pavement. 

There are more empty shops this year than ever before. 

The public toilets are a disgrace.

They are a health hazard. We are from now on every five years staying in London. It is much cleaner. 

The homeless and beggars are less aggressive and the toilets are spotless. 

Brighton is no longer safe and the council seems to be doing nothing about it.

Tom and Betty Gill, Gillies Street, Wollstonecroft, North Sydney

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