The team hoping to win £50,000 in a live television contest for a new urban playground claims its bid has been sabotaged.

Seafront Freestyle wants to build the world's first dedicated space for the sport of parkour - using railings, roofs, barriers and window sills as an obstacle course - and competes tonight for viewers' votes in a TV phone-in against another community project in Kent for lottery cash.

But the Brighton team, hoping to use the site of a derelict paddling pool between the piers, points out the show will be only on Meridian South East and not Meridian South, seen in Brighton.

Gill Mitchell, of Brighton and Hove City Council, called it "a terrible mess" which "hands the prize to Kent on a plate".