Pavements aren't for wheelie bins, but people, as are bus shelters, not cars, which park in Downs Valley Road's only bus shelter.

Car owners don't use buses, so it doesn't bother them people have to stand in the road for the bus to stop.

What is the matter with British men?

Four stories in The Argus last weekend (June 4) made depressing reading.

PC Graham Jones was sentenced to eight years for killing his wife after stabbing her almost 100 times because "she was having an affair".

He is likely to be released after four years.

Former solider Shaun Macdonald stabbed to death his wife.

He admitted manslaughter on the grounds of "diminished responsibility".

Gerald Burton had "had far too much to drink" before setting fire to his ex-girlfriend's car in a jealous rage.

Ian Vickers was convicted of sexual assaults on two female paramedics. He denied the charge, saying "he had been drinking".

He had previously been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a refugee.

On that occasion, he claimed he had had "so much to drink that night he could not remember what had happened".

Sadly, these are not unusual stories. Similar stories are repeated week after week.

What is it about British men? They can't control their tempers. They can't hold their drink. They can't control themselves.

A partner may be unfaithful. But if they are, they don't deserve to die, to be assaulted or have their property set alight.

"Jealous outrage" or other so-called provocations should not be allowed as a mitigating factor.

I have three simple messages for pathetic men such as these.

Grow up, if you can't drink sensibly, don't drink at all, and violence against women is never justified.

I hope judges begin to treat violence against women seriously.

-Phyllis Miller, Brighton