"I'm not clear, Ron. You have said you think the immigration authorities have got it wrong, but you then seem to be saying that the Halle Orchestra should have suppressed this story, which would have had to mean giving some fictitious reasons for why the tour which had already been announced had to be cancelled (and they wouldn't have been believed anyway - with 100 members knowing the truth and a good few other people, secrecy would have been completely impossible, and the outcome would have been a bigger story)."

No, that isn't what I said. I NEVERI do believe that there is a redtape scenario that the immigration authorities are trying to deal with.