My French sister-in-law tells me there was a front-page picture in Le Figaro last week showing the sad state of our once glorious and famous West Pier.
This proves it is not only local people who are concerned about its future.
I cannot bear to think of the day when we citizens look out to sea and find it no longer there.
-David Ansell, Hill Drive, Hove
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