The executive staff are of course accountable to the Board (by the way the Board Members are the Trustees not the executive staff whether they are called "director" or not).

The Trustees and I suggest the Members (and I am one) should want to leave the Operational side of running the organisation with those that have been employed to do it, wherever possible. But this looks like a situation where explanation is due - but not possible yet.

To balance this up, I have known Nick for many years and the improvement in the Marketing and Communications side of the EFDSS as been terrific in the last year. Well done Nick.

But as is obvious we don't actually know what has gone on.

In any case, its a bloody shame.