I was going to write to you about the Brighton and Hove Bus and Coach Company.

I was going to say that, having lived for more than seven years in a listed building in a conservation area, I was surprised when five buses an hour started using my road so wrote a letter to managing director Roger French.

I was going to say that Mr French replied with a short note saying his action was legal and "suitable" for a "turn-round manoeuvre".

I was going to suggest this was a high-handed, arbitrary action by a concern that has a social as well as a commercial obligation to the public.

I was going to warn other residents that, in the context of future transport developments, they should ask the Brighton and Hove Economic Partnership what exactly is meant by getting our "sustainable transport system working 100 per cent efficiently".

I would have said all that but it went completely out of my mind after reading Julie Burchill's letter (December 1) in support of Hove Library which gave a lesson in courtesy to a presumptuous councillor who addressed her by her first name.

Splendid stuff. Were I not living in a city of diversity, I would say I was Miss Burchill's slave for life - which is more than I am of the bus company.

-Denis Christian, Kemp Town