In the current Brighton and Hove News we are told: "There is to be a crackdown on illegal and dangerous parking next year." But why do we have to wait until next summer, when Brighton and Hove Council takes responsibility? By this time motorists will have come to believe parking on yellow lines and in the middle of the road is normal and acceptable - just another of our "God-given rights". I have serious doubts as to whether the council's parking attendants will have any more effect than the present absentee traffic wardens. They should certainly circulate in pairs and wear body armour.

-R.G. Jenkins, Hove