"I don't read either of the recent threads as ATTACKING SIDMOUTH"

A title like "What's Happened to Sidmouth?" doesn't suggest to me that the poster thinks anything GOOD has happened to Sidmouth, while "Sidmouth Ripoff!" (still up there near the top of the page advertising one person's pernicious opinion as though factual) couldn't be mistaken for anything other than an attack.

I'm not sure why Sidmouth Folk Week seems to have this particular magnetism for the disgruntled - maybe because there will always be a few who think it should have forever have remained true to either its EFDSS or its Mrs Casey incarnation - but I'm pretty pleased that it's still happening, and still a good festival, and still presenting music with a traditional base, after nearly biting the dust altogether just a few years ago. And I also thought Ruth's responses were a model of detail and good manners up to the point at which it became clear she was dealing with an axe-grinder.