The Argus weekend edition (July 20) on the Fatboy Slim debacle reinforces my recent appeal to the leader of Brighton and Hove City Council to drop the idea of European Capital of Culture.

In addition to the endemic violence in the clubs and on the street, the rape and abuse of foreign students, a city where girls cannot walk alone after ten at night, a high crime rate - all the very negation of any form of culture -- we now have a quarter-of-a-million "culture-sensitives" assembling to hear a man playing records.

We already have the reputation of uncouth yobbery abroad.

Such an assembly for such a purpose will make the rest of Europe howl with derision at the idea of calling ourselves a Capital of Culture.

-R A Hopper, Hove Park Road, Hove