I hardly think the BBC can be blamed for Sidmouth's problems. The BBC's job is not to bail out every event which has financial/organisational problems. They have enough pressure maintaining quality programming across a wide front to sponsor everything.

They did sponsor Sidmouth Festival - look and the old Sidmouth website which is still running.http://www.sidmouthfestival.com/. Various programmes have been broadcast from Sidmouth this year and in the past.

Adrian