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    Vic, it's not exactly the form we would have ideally preferred, we wanted the town to have ownership, not just a degree of control. But it has achieved our three main objectives: 1. The port is now safe from privatisation, 2. it will now be accountable to the people of the town and 3. it can now be an engine for regeneration. And it's achieved another subsidiary objective: no big windfall payments for the likes of Dr Goldfield. These achievements are primarily due to the hard work and tenacity of Charlie, Neil and Sir Patrick Sheehy.

    And you can congratulate yourself on it still being a trust port (it has not been a Royal Port since 1606) while such a status continues to exist, which is unlikely to be for long.

    We shall now see how things go, DPPT is playing the long game. If the changes yield the desired results, then all well and good. If not, the DfT will be hearing from us again.

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