For many of us, last Saturday will go down in history as the greatest evening in modern British sport. On ‘Super Saturday', who was not among the 17 million people glued to their seats rooting for Jessica Ennis, Mo Farah, Greg Rutherford, those posh rowers, and robotic, Lycra-clad cyclists?!

Well… the good people of Brighton and Hove, it seems. While the rest of us cheered Olympian feats, misplaced bureaucrats at the South Coast town hall instead helped ensure the giant screen on the city's beach splashed 1980s hairbrushes-for-microphones classic movie Dirty Dancing for all to see.