I have come up with a plan for a combined pier and football stadium on the seafront.

It features some excellent additions, such as running the whole structure on rails, rather like the "Daddy-Long-Legs" that once ran along the beach to Rottingdean.

The solution to several planning issues in one, I present: The Brighton and Hove Albion and West (& East) Pier Steam and Electric TramRoad.

Travel up and down the seafront while watching The Albion or promenade along the pier.

And, with a little extra engineering, The Albion could be "in Europe" whenever they felt like it.

-Alan Budgen, Cromwell Tower, Barbican, London EC2