Thanks for the replies guys regarding the garrisons and I'll stop wasting my hard earned cash now on pointlessly large garrisons! And i didnt realise that you had to explore the map to make other cities visible Maybe next campaign I won't attack the irish, welsh and french at the same time and take it a bit slower and consolidate Britain first before moving onto rennes, Bruges etc!

Loving the game but have had to call a halt at the moment as the disk has stopped working (probably inadvertently scratched it so will have to take it back and get a new one )

And apologies in advance for any other dumb questions!