ON THE BEACH!

Something like it used to be!

By Andy Gilbert

Sunday 4th August 2013, 2.00pm. We'd picked up our grandson and he'd obligingly fallen asleep in the car on the way back from Lewes, so we picked up a couple of milk shakes and headed for the West Pier.

Surprise number one, no-one on duty at the kiosk to collect money from us for parking.

Surprise number 2, loads of people on the sandy beach, enjoying themselves in the same way that we always used to!

No, the spiky iron railings haven't been removed, but with the addition of some new concrete, they have been bent back and it is now very easy to simply walk around them and onto the beach steps. With no-one to tell them otherwise, people just took advantage of the situation.

Maybe, just maybe, the railings will go and this will become the 'norm' once again. However, I feel that the port owners will soon 'rectify' the issue - in their favour.