The Korean car giant Daewoo has behaved in a completely unacceptable fashion towards its staff in Worthing.

Salaries were not paid on time to the 750 workers at the Sussex plant.

Daewoo was having cash flow problems and creditors were called in to its base in Seoul.

But the workers should have come first.

Either the firm should shut up shop and put redundancy schemes into operation or it should make sure staff are paid properly and promptly.

There could be a case for intervention by the British Government explaining to its opposite number in South Korea and the firm itself that staff are being treated with contempt.

This latest problem has shown how unwise Worthing Borough Council was in accepting a car for the mayor from the firm when it knew of the previous difficulties.

Daewoo was a welcome addition to employers at Worthing when it arrived. But the company has now shown itself to be untrustworthy.

Unions, employees, councillors and the Government should all waste no time in telling its bosses exactly what they think.

Please listen Business leaders didn't like it at all. Residents were divided about it. Yet councillors appear determined to press on with plans for a permit parking scheme in Hove town centre.

Large sums of money were spent on consultation and the message that came back was not one Brighton and Hove Council wanted to hear.

The council was probably right in believing such a scheme would stop illegal parking and bring improvements for both residents and businesses.

But it will have to sell the scheme better in the next round of consultation to people in an area with many wide streets and where parking has always been free.

Otherwise, the danger is the council will be accused, like the Government, of not having paid attention to people's real concerns.

Hot air on menu Two years ago a fire made a dog's breakfast of the Royal Albion Hotel in Brighton after a chef dropped a tray of sausages and eggs on a kitchen floor.

After a £7 million refit the once shining chandelier-filled building has again opened for business in time for the Labour Party conference.

The management are certainly used to hot air, anyway.