I am concerned about the open sewers in our parks.

Dog walkers cannot be made to pick up their dog mess, so Brighton and Hove City Council needs to give them spaces, rather than most

of the park, where signposts can warn families with children to keep away.

I spent 20 minutes in Stanmer Park on a mown area and 30 minutes cleaning the children and their toys of dog mess. It was the same in Preston Park and the mown playing fields at the top of Ladies Mile Road.

There are many very serious conditions that can be caught from dog mess, one causing blindness.

The Victorians removed the last of our open sewers so why, in 2003, are we wading through tons of dog sewage?

-Richard Athlone, Brighton