It really is a mad world we live in. On the very day protests were taking place in France and the UK because of fuel shortages related to crude oil costs, there were apparently pointless speed trials along Brighton seafront, which were simply a waste of fuel.

There is a hole in the ozone layer, caused substantially by pollution from exhaust fumes, which is endangering human survival. Closer to home, we have a ribbon of coast road, eternally choked with traffic, dividing town and country with an invisible wall of noxious fumes.

-F. Robinson and M. Hahn, Arundel Terrace, Brighton