That magic word "free" brought them from all over the South of England to see Fatboy Slim in Brighton.

Unfortunately, as we all know, nothing is free and someone has to pay to clear up all the rubbish left by the hordes of visitors - the same suckers who have to pay for the travellers' rubbish.

They are not the establishments who made huge profits, but the local residents, the council taxpayers, many of them with limited means such as pensioners, whose interest in Fatboy Slim is negligible.

The Argus has reported a local hospital is "bursting at the seams" and operations are being cancelled because of the spate of emergencies but still Brighton and Hove City Council's merry-go-round goes on under its misnomer of "pursuing culture".

So vibrant is Brighton that the council is overspent and we cannot afford the King Alfred leisure centre in Hove without the influx of another 400 flats.

-J Denman, Bramber Avenue, Hove