Complaints over awards

The BBC, who covered the Paralympic Games better than anyone, should take some flak for their disgraceful presentation of the Sports Personality of the Year Awards.

Tanni Grey-Thompson, their multi-medalled disabled athlete, won the award for triumph in the face of adversity or some other pigeonholing prize. Pity then that the set designers could not arrange for a wheelchair ramp to be built up to the interview area.

Improbable as it seems, Tanni was placed below the rest of the panel looking up like a school kid who had just been sent to the headmaster's office. Perhaps that's why the corporation received over 160 complaints after the show.