Our family have spent the morning reading all the posts on this site and many others. How depressing. We had hoped to read about people working together to keep the Sidmouth Festival going. Instead we read about councillors, residents, traders and others all arguing among themselves like a bunch of spoilt schoolchildren. With this kind of bickering going on it appears to us that any festival in 2005 cannot possibly be as enjoyable as those we have attended for ten years and more. It is therefore with heavy hearts that we have decided today not to think about returning to Sidmouth in 2005. We will go elsewhere.