Leaving my car at home, I took a bus from Hangleton to watch my granddaughter in the Children's Parade and what a treat - the children, teachers and parents had worked so hard and the results were fabulous.

But what a mess, making so many small children and their accompanying adults squeeze slowly through narrow streets to the seafront.

No wonder the first children had gone home before the end of the parade had reached the seafront for the singalong.

And that is not to mention the chaos with buses and traffic which ensued for hours.

Isn't the solution obvious? Why couldn't the parade start at Peter Pan's, then go straight along the seafront to the lower prom by the Palace Pier?

This way, all the children could keep up, the parade could spread out and it would be one glorious spectacle - with ample space for all the spectators to see it.

Visitors to Brighton could arrive in plenty of time to see the parade and maybe come again, rather than being put off with the crawl into Brighton they must have experienced.

And the buses could have kept to their timetable. Nobody minds some delay but it wasn't much fun standing with small children in costumes at the bus stop waiting for a bus home in the pouring rain for more than an hour.

I finally reached home at 3.30 having left the parade at 1pm.

-M Jacobs, Hove