This country is nothing more than a gigantic rubbish tip and the bank holiday produced unbelievable litter.

Brighton, Hove and Portslade have some of the most beautiful parks in the county but they are spoilt by the people they were created for.

In Greenleas recreation ground in Hangleton, people were sitting in the sunshine enjoying the first match of the football season. There were mums, dads, girlfriends and boyfriends.

When those people left, it was like the dump for rubbish at Small Dole.

They left Coke cans, water bottles, food containers and anything else they thought would be no good to them.

There were black containers for rubbish a short distance from them and another black rubbish bin outside the big house.

This rubbish had to be picked up by someone. The parks and garden teams come around two or three times a week to pick it up. But it isn't part of their job - they have enough work to do, especially in the summer months and they have to pick rubbish up in other parks as well.

Hove Lower School in Hangleton Way has the same problem. There are huge yellow bins all around the sports field but all the rubbish ends up on the grass.

Brighton and Hove City Council should make teachers insist on children and students using bins.

If they refuse, bring in some form of detention. Make them stay in class after hours or write a few hundred lines. It did not hurt the older generation.

Introduce a points system, with a child or student reporting to someone for not putting rubbish in the bins.

-Councillor Peter Willows, Hove