David Panter is certainly taking an idiosyncratic approach to the council's Best Value targets.

He should wise up to the fact it is far more impressive to find out-of-the-way restaurants (Shoreham is just such territory).

As for the council's continual touting of cafs, I have always puzzled why anybody should want to spend £2 on a cup of coffee and sit on somebody else's sofa when for the price of 150 such cups, one can buy a sofa of one's own.

-Christopher Hawtree, Hove