In reply to balmybaldwin:
My neighbour is a Police officer and last night over a social cup of tea he was explaining the unbelievable incompetence of the Police management in sorting out his secondment to a new role in the local force. If that's anything to go by, the county council is even more unbelievably incompetent.
Incidentally "Never attribute to malice something which can be adequately explained by stupidity" is a good explanation for the Bradley Wiggins jiffy bag mystery; my cycling buddy knows the BC team doctor very well indeed and is pretty sure that the whole thing is the result of what can be politely described as "a bit of a muddle".