I took this photo in Largo di Torre Argentina in the centre of Rome. Here cats wander among Roman ruins. The square is home to Rome's cat sanctuary, where stray cats are looked after and, if they're lucky, are found a home.
The picture on the right is of the staircase at the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill-on-Sea (Sussex). Built in 1935, this modernist building was designed by Eric Mendelsohn and Serge Chermayeff.
This photo of the West Pier in Brighton was taken in May 2003. Today (July 2008) only the section to the right remains. It's a dramatic feature that needs to be preserved.
Brighton Pier (originally called Palace Pier) is to the east and was built at the end of the nineteenth century.
The first pier in Brighton, the Chain Pier (1823), stood just to the east of the Palace Pier and served as a boarding point for ships to the port of Dieppe. (In the first half of the nineteenth century it was possible to travel between London and Paris via Brighton, Dieppe and Rouen.) The Chain Pier was badly damaged by storms and dismantled a few years before the Palace Pier was completed.