There's plenty to be pleased about in the new Local Plan being produced by Brighton and Hove Council as a blueprint for development during the next decade.

The authority is likely to be bold over plumping for a community stadium to house Brighton and Hove Albion at Falmer.

There's no other place for this stadium and the Albion cannot stay at Withdean forever. The Falmer site will also produce other benefits with hi-tech industry and sports medicine.

The plan is also radical in proposing that any developer building ten or more homes should have to make 40 per cent of them affordable housing.

Brighton and Hove has a desperate shortage of homes ordinary people can afford. Action must be taken to ensure they are still able to live here.

But the council seems to be funking the important issue of park-and-ride. The need for a scheme is outlined, but no suitable site is put forward.

There's a huge problem for the council here as the only feasible site, at Waterhall Valley, is north of the bypass and in the Downs.

But if Brighton and Hove succeeds in its bid for £3.75 million from the Government, it will have to put park-and-ride somewhere and it will have to be Waterhall. Why not say so?

Keep it going. A new survey shows trade in Brighton town centre is on the up.

Sales are increasing and the number of empty shops is dropping, according to research by the Town Centre Business Forum.

This can only be good news for our city by the sea, and offsets fears expressed when the new Churchill Square shopping centre reopened.

But, as town centre manager Tony Mernagh points out, it is vital that the momentum is kept going.

The current poor weather will inevitably have an effect on the next set of results.

The Town Centre Forum is looking at ways of encouraging more visitors in the town - which is vital if we are to continue being the Place to Be.

Carry on, 007 James Bond did not have medicine in mind when he saw the latest operating theatre table made by Worthing firm Eschmann.

He used it to seduce a nurse after having a medical in the latest film starring Pierce Brosnan, called The World is Not Enough.

The nurse was reported later to have been shaken but not stirred.