The honest fact is that there should have been no complaints in the first place. We appreciate that the organisation has embarked on a massive job. But these kind of wholesale renovations are not new to the men and women at the top of the organisation. Many of them were employed by the council when it went about other modernisation programmes across the city. No doubt many tenants on those occasions voiced their concerns and lessons should have been learned and those experiences carried forward to anticipate problems on this programme.

Be more open about future of schools
THE shallowness of the City Council's 'consultation' processes is revealed after announcing it wants to develop an enterprise centre on the Wisewood school site. This is the same school whose future is supposed to be open for 'consultation' amid plans to close it and move pupils to the Myers Grove site.
This indicates to many, Wisewood parents included, that the school's fate has long been decided beyond the interference of local opinion. We believe the council needs to realise the difference between consultation and communication. To consult suggests people have a say in what will happen to the school when they fear all that is happening is that they are being told, in guarded terms, what the future holds.

Los Jingle Bell-os
IT is still only November and many are already fed up of hearing Christmas songs pumped out of speakers in high street stores. And that could be why a record number of 2.5 million Brits are planning to travel abroad this festive season, a quarter of them to get away from the mania surrounding tinsel and turkey. The problem is that they will still have to put up with the all those awful Christmas songs. It is just that they will be sung in Spanish or Greek instead this time.