"He's got some very bright ideas that he's already been raising with us and I have every confidence he will challenge us, advise us and council us to improve things quite materially".
She told us councils were reluctant to take on bad landlords: "An environmental health officer might say, 'Look, 60 of these properties..
"Day after day we are cornered into an unrelenting competition that smothers and suffocates us," the council said.
And even where local government can help with a deposit, private landlords often tell us that council schemes are cumbersome, slow to administer and claim against in the event of damages caused by tenants.
While there is no doubt that Iran is in contravention of US security council resolutions, and there is substantial evidence that the country had an organised weapons project up to 2003, the claim that work has continued has added to the sense of urgency that has fuelled the western oil embargo, due to take effect in less than four months, and threats of military action.
"This type of weather over the next few days will probably test other areas and challenge us," said council spokesperson Ron Cant.
"It will come back to us via the town clerks report, by that stage solicitors will have been involved and will have formed an opinion, which will be presented to us at council," he said.
Equally parti pris are the British and US dairy councils - apparently the source of public health information, but in reality branches of the milk business.
The sledgehammer was also wielded elsewhere, notably in Libya, where the three traditional imperial powers (Britain, France and the US) procured security council resolution 1973 and instantly violated it, becoming the air force of the rebels.
