She doesn't actually have to answer them, does she? I remember a meeting of another authority's cabinet where a member of the public asked the transport spokesman if he would please consider subsidising a threatened bus route. The transport spokesman just said: "No, because we can't afford it."
Why do they need to rehearse the draw? Can't they just line the balls up? It's not like I need to have a "rehearsal" game of Scrabble before I have a real one, is it?
To be honest, people who are stopped in the street by reporters who write down the first thing that comes out of their gobs are never going to provide the most accurate facts. There will be random people in Lewes who've followed this case by half-reading the Argus every so often and catching...