No-one wants to see big projects fail in their city. No-one wants to see people losing their jobs and for the reputations to be tarnished.
Today is a dark day for our city, but the closure of the Castle and the fact the Trust has fallen into liquidation is not something that has come as a surprise to many of us.
The people behind the costly £30m revamp had a chance to make something brilliant. To make something the people of Nottingham, those families living in the shadows of the sandstone cliffs, could be proud of and visit again and again.