Perhaps local election campaigns do have some benefit after all.

In Woodingdean, we have had to put up with a shabby and, quite frankly, dangerous shopping parade for years because of complacent sitting councillors.

Now, with an election in the air, their Labour opponents have wrung the grand sum of £10,000 from Brighton and Hove City Council and a similar sum from the traders for improvements.

Perhaps we will see yet more action in the next few weeks.

Let's hope it continues after the election is over.

-Simon Betts, Sandhurst Avenue, Woodingdean