Queen's Park is still my favourite open space in Brighton and Hove, despite the regular attacks from seagulls and lack of children's toilets.

On Saturday I was there watching the Queen's Park Tennis Club finals and minding some small children playing on the grassy bank beside the courts (co-incidentally right in front of Councillor Ken Bodfish's home) when my four-year-old daughter announced she had found a "pinny thing" and wanted to know what it was.

No prizes for guessing it was a discarded syringe with exposed needle, just lying on the grass. The problem arose of what to do with it. We couldn't just leave it lying in the grass.

There was no park attendant around at that time and we couldn't put it in an ordinary rubbish bin. It's not the kind of thing you dial 999 about - you can't call the police about it on the non-urgent number because they take so long to answer your mobile's battery runs out - and the people on the Brighton and Hove City Council inquiry switchboard have gone home for the weekend.

I am certain Coun Bodfish would not have thanked me for knocking on his door with it.

So what are we supposed to do when we find a syringe in a public place such as this and it clearly cannot just be left there?

-Jane Launchbury, Hanover