Latest reports say Brighton and Hove's unemployment is the highest in the South East with six per cent of the city's population out of work - twice the level of the rest of southern England and well above the national average.

This is despite Brighton and Hove having been revealed as the UK's most profitable city for businesses.

The TUC points to seasonal seaside work and lack of training schemes as contributing to the problem. Perhaps we should be going for the title of European Capital of a Culture of Exploitation?

This would be especially apt as our councillors seem to think increasing casual, low-paid, unskilled work in tourism or telemarketing is something they should be congratulated for.

They should instead be applying themselves to the problem highlighted by Mark Chapman, the IT graduate who hasn't been able to find a job to meet his qualifications in more than a year of searching (Letters, June 28), or addressing the loss of the industries that used to support Moulsecoomb and the other estates until they were closed in the Thatcher era.

-L Cerrato, Robert Street, Brighton