Surely it came as no surprise that someone would torch the wood mountains on Worthing beach (The Argus, February 18).

It's amazing it didn't happen before.

This clean-up has been terribly organised. All I've seen in the past month is piles of wood being moved from one beach to another and now moved yet again, with yellow-coated individuals standing around looking fed-up.

The sensible thing would have been to use that manpower to load - the then mostly undamaged wood - into bailing machines. It could have then been removed from the beach in one go and put to a good use.

Instead, what we have now is sharp pieces of wood driven deep into the beach, making it dangerous to use, we have damage to the newly laid tarmac at the Heene entrance to the promenade caused by all the heavy machinery and of course we have the now worthless wood. On top of all that we have the bungling Brits image portrayed abroad.

Clearly whoever is in charge of this clean-up needs to get their act together or better still go back and stack shelves in a supermarket.

  • John Hughes, Welland Road, Worthing