So, another chunk of Brighton's ill-fated West Pier has collapsed.

It's reassuring to read that Rachel Clark, general manager of the Brighton West Pier Trust, thinks it "looks serious" (January 20).

I wonder which university she hails from and how much she gets paid to come out with such trenchant insights?

Leave the pier as it stands - or falls. It is a fitting monument to the inertia and incompetence of Brighton and Hove's leading lights and frighteningly ineffectual council.

-Patricia Burgess, Elm Grove, Brighton