[Ken Moss]

As someone who was unable to go to the public event on Saturday morning I attended the vigil last Thursday. Or at least I thought I did, the photo in the paper less than four hours later implied that the opposition members didn't turn up.

The (daylight?) vigil was moved twice and probably rubbed many parents up the wrong way for completely stealing the media limelight. In retrospect I'm almost sorry that I went because the whole thing seemed to be more about publicity for councillors than the respite centre. However, one of those present got a monumental public roasting for seemingly doing a u-turn and jumping on the bandwagon so it was worth it for that alone.

I hope that the Saturday morning event was more successful for their cause, if the respite centre remains open then it is primarily down to the efforts of the parents and public.