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What, that it's muesli-ists who want it re-built? Nah, I'd reckon old Brightonians - pre-DFL days.

Not sure how you came to that conclusion. I'd say the opposite - those who insist that Adam Trimingham is still important, that the Brighton Society 'has a point, you know', and that Brighton isn't Brighton without two piers read The Argus. Not that I'm generalising, of course.

Interesting - well, mildly interesting - state of affairs when considering the future of the 'West Pier'... NSC / Arsegas Rebuild it - 21% / 38% Leave it - 56% / 40% Demolish it - 22% / 22% ... which says something. Not sure what, though.

This subject matter is currently trending on Twitter. Oh, nothing, just saying.

That hall? ???

A Lewes bonfire-type obliteration?

Not me. Wouldn't mind finding out. I think Oscar (post above) is bang on the money regarding the WPT needing to justify itself.

There is something beautiful about the skeletal structure - a piece of art that no-one commissioned, almost creating itself. I wouldn't have minded keeping that in perpetuity. But 40 years of local inertia, confusion and obstinacy have meant that, eventually, even that will disappear naturally.

Declared unsafe and closed in 1975, it has been left to nature to decide its fate over the past four decades. A potted history, courtesy of Wikipedia... The West Pier was opened in 1866 with a length of 1115 feet, and built with cast iron threaded columns screwed into the seabed. The pier did...