So Brighton and Hove City Council is positively discouraging homeless people who are not from Brighton and Hove from hanging around the area?

Not only have I been wondering how this could be achieved, I have also actively conducted my own survey. I have been asking every homeless person I've encountered in cardboard boxes, sheltering in doorways in the early hours, and those that are taken in by a number of charitable organisations. Without fail, when I asked where these people were from, the answer was the same: "Brighton" or "Hove". Even those with Scottish, Irish, French, Yugoslav and German accents.

You see, the problem is, homeless people don't have addresses, so no one can check where they're from - or has Brighton and Hove City Council yet again engaged mouth before brain? How times change.

-Brian Ralfe@aol.com