At last, I thought, on Sunday morning, just east of the Palace Pier, a boat was laying down yellow marker buoys for inner limits of speedboats.

I was wrong. It was a private boat laying down a course for a couple of speedboats to fly around for themselves.

Great, isn't it? Brighton and Hove City Council has failed to put a line of markers, stating they are "on order" but may not, as yet, have been delivered.

I suggest another supplier is found, quickly, before somebody is killed. The council official responsible for this should be taken to task.

Last week, I ventured out for a swim, to be buzzed by numerous speedboats, jet-skiers, a man being towed in an inner-tube, water-skiers, a banana boat so close in that three people waded ashore from it, huge gin palaces moored yards off the beach and, to cap it all, a fishing boat with rods out over the stern - how dangerous is that to swimmers? - all well inside the safety limit, which, I believe, is 300 yards.

Haven't the lifeguards or beach officers get some kind of authority? I seem to remember they used to have loudhailers to warn these people off. If swimming wasn't hazardous enough, on coming out of the sea I was buzzed by a powered parachutist literally feet above the pebbles.

Whatever next? No aerial limit either? I thought that was a minimum of 1,500ft.

-Gordon McPhee, Bennett Road, Brighton