I was on holiday in Cornwall last week when I heard  that this year’s Torchlight Carnival has had to be cancelled because of lack of sponsorship (Click on link) and too few volunteers.

My immediate reaction was sadness. The Torchlight Procession, as it was originally called, started in 1970 and over the years has been enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of people. But then I started to wonder why South Lakeland District Council failed to reply to the committee’s request for sponsorship. It isn’t as if the council doesn’t realise the importance of “providing better certainty for the planning” for this type of event. After all they made sure that Mintfest had their money a year in advance (Click on link)! And it isn’t as if one is bigger than the other, or is it?

All of which suggests, yet again, that in South Lakeland there’s one rule for some ………..