Once again, the wretched David Beisterfield of Noble is attacking the West Pier Trust, just as he did last year (Argus, May 24). His dog-in-a-manger attitude becomes repetitive and nauseating.

Members of the trust have worked hard and unselfishly for many years to try to get this magnificent part of Brighton's heritage back into service. They do not deserve the sniping from along the shore.

It's a joke to suggest the Palace Pier deserves Lottery funding on a par to the West Pier. Since when has Noble shown the slightest interest in restoration?

The company conveniently "lost" the historic theatre from their pier. It can hardly be said to look after the remnants of original decorative ironwork and so on that still survive on the pier.

Only a few years ago, Noble made a horrendous proposal for redevelopment of the landward part of the pier, which would have involved the destruction of much of the original structure and which resulted in an urgent upgrading of the pier's listed status to prevent it ever being carried out.

Beisterfield's latest campaign is hypocritical, commercially motivated and offensive to Brighton.

-Charles Newman, Manchester Street, Brighton