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If you don't mind the upright front of the Filey - it is certainly worth serious consideration with its 100D flysheet that could double or more the life of the tent in terms of UV resilience. You can tell the quality difference in the Kampa Ultimate tent range - we have the smaller Bude 4.

If you want a Vango with stability and a bargain. Check out the Vango Columbia 600 (discontinued but still a few around new - blue (aka smoke) or sage) - steel poles, 5000HH, TBSII system, SIG, enclosed side porch, 2/3 bedrooms etc. Windshedding shape too - £275 (RRP last year £450). The footprint, carpet and canopy (sage colour only) for the 2010 Sungari 600 will fit. We've found ours to have excellent weather resillience. We use the Vango Adventure Tarp over the front of ours.

Helen

Sorry to hear about your endless bad weather when camping! We changed our tent this year for the same reason and now have a Royal Cuban 6 which has 3 bedroom pods. We went for this mainly for the zipped in groundsheet & the thick metal poles wheras our old one the groundsheet wasn't attached to the tent & the wind got underneath and the poles were too flexible! 

We had some high winds and heavy rain when we were away in it and were very impressed, it hardly moved in the wind & no leaks in the rain.

if you like Vango what about something like this?

http://www.outdoorworlddirect.co.uk/acatalog/vango-maritsa-700-laurel-meadow.html