I can understand how disgusted Michelle Batchelor would be as a visitor to Brighton at our filthy, litter-strewn streets (December 11).

Our dustmen do a marvellous job and it's not their fault if people are too lazy to secure their rubbish bags.

If they wrapped all foodstuff in newspaper before putting it in the rubbish bag, we wouldn't have the problem of foxes and seagulls ripping them open.

-Joan Evans, Western Road