Now there was a time that you could rely on the snivelling service to recruit a good type who understood how our Mother Tongue should be constructed. So imagine my horror to see an official Civil Personnel advertisement on an MOD noticeboard seeking to entice folk to take the tests to be elevated from Band E to Band D: The banner headline read: 'You're passport to Band D' and went on to explain the process for application and selection. Just goes to show if you pay peanuts you get monkeys.