I'd have thought it would be quite appropriate to send the councillors a copy of this dossier.

Anything further heard about that legal article by Suzanne something which Richard Bridges was chasing up?

(In the present context this may seem like rearranging deckchairs on the Titanic. But I've always felt differently about that cliche since I heard that there actually was someone rearranging deckchairs on the Titanic. He was building a life raft, and it worked and he survived. I think that is actually true, but if it isn't it should be.)