Is it not about time the pie-in-the-sky idiots, including our councillors, spouting on about saving the West Pier admitted the thing is a pile of junk and is collapsing, just as I predicted it would?

Again, I say there is no point in preserving rot and corrosion brought about by years of mismanagement and neglect.

The £14 million of earmarked Lottery money could go towards something important. How about a refurbishment of St Dunstan's? That is a deserving cause, if ever there was one, and I challenge anyone to disagree.

-Rod Ackers, Lucerne Close, Easthill, Portslade