It is EDDC that may need putting out of its misery soon. Their spending review may need to find savings of £4 million per year out of a budget of £45 million (according to a press report this week). The review even includes considering selling off the Knowle - which could include the land where the arena events are held.

In years past, the Knowle was an up-market hotel. That was before cheap air travel. Knocking it down might be a logical next step - they have just spent £100,000 on a new plate glass and superior chipboard entrance foyer. In the old days of the PSA (who used to look after central government buildings before privatisation swept all before it) we always used to say that you could tell which was the next edifice to be demolished because it would just have been repainted. The various departments never used to talk to each other.

Enough of this nostalgia, and let's hear it for the Wurzels.....