Spoilsports from environment protection threaten to fine the Brighton Festival's Spiegeltent for providing entertainment in a public park.

Bossy safety police stop bicyclists from riding on one of Europe's widest seafronts.

Nit-picking waste enforcement officials rummage through some poor woman's rubbish in Hove.

All this reported in one morning's Argus.

Meanwhile, the streets stink of uncollected bin bags, echo with the shouts of uncontrolled drunken yobs and swarm with vicious traffic wardens.

I used to think Brighton and Hove City Council couldn't do what it should be doing because the Government wouldn't give it enough money.

Funds are indeed inadequate, but the present Council makes matters worse by wasting resources on policies of often mind-boggling pettiness.

They've lost my vote and, I suspect, that of many others.

-David Gray, Brighton