News that the police now seem to be operating a waiting list in dealing with emergencies is both disturbing and intriguing.

As a mad axeman hacks at your door, a promise that an officer will probably attend sometime around Easter is of only limited reassurance.

Watching a patrol car speed into town on Wednesday night, I wondered if it was to deal with the overcrowding developing at last year's Fatboy Slim beach party or if the Mods and Rockers had kicked off again at the end of the West Pier.

Trevor Eve's excellent TV series Waking The Dead should be set in Brighton and Hove next time.

Eve plays a character who investigates cold cases. Most of ours have become that by the time the local force arrives.

-Brian Snow, Margaret Street, Brighton