diff --git a/build/schema/mysql.demo.sql b/build/schema/mysql.demo.sql
index 44ce0f6..bf4605f 100644
--- a/build/schema/mysql.demo.sql
+++ b/build/schema/mysql.demo.sql
@@ -39,6 +39,25 @@ INSERT INTO `site` (`id`, `service`, `name`, `description`) VALUES
 (6, 5, 'Local', 'Local LDAP services'),
 (7, 5, 'Offsite', 'Offsite LDAP services');
 
+--
+-- Dumping data for table `incident`
+--
+
+INSERT INTO `incident` (`id`, `site`, `reference`, `description`, `start_time`, `estimated_end_time`, `actual_end_time`) VALUES
+(1, 1, 'UK:0001', 'Intermittent packetloss on primary internet connection', 1324079805, 1324079805, NULL),
+(2, 1, 'UK:0002', 'Full outage', 1324079805, 1324079805, NULL),
+(3, 4, 'UK:0003', 'DNS zone maintenance', 1324082411, 1324082411, NULL);
+
+--
+-- Dumping data for table `incidentstatus`
+--
+
+INSERT INTO `incidentstatus` (`id`, `incident`, `status`, `description`, `ctime`) VALUES
+(1, 1, 2, 'Initial classification', 1324079864),
+(2, 2, 4, 'Initial classification', 1324079864),
+(3, 1, 3, 'Status upgraded due to increasing impact from the ongoing issue.', 1324080307),
+(4, 3, 1, 'Initial classification', 1324082426);
+
 --
 -- Dumping data for table `user`
 --
diff --git a/build/schema/mysql.sql b/build/schema/mysql.sql
index 950d814..d62eb72 100644
--- a/build/schema/mysql.sql
+++ b/build/schema/mysql.sql
@@ -117,6 +117,7 @@ CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `incidentstatus` (
   `id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
   `incident` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL,
   `status` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL,
+  `description` text NOT NULL,
   `ctime` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL,
   PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
 ) ENGINE=InnoDB  DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 ;
diff --git a/source/lib/StatusBoard/IncidentStatus.class.php b/source/lib/StatusBoard/IncidentStatus.class.php
index 6b1e590..f5fe80f 100644
--- a/source/lib/StatusBoard/IncidentStatus.class.php
+++ b/source/lib/StatusBoard/IncidentStatus.class.php
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ class StatusBoard_IncidentStatus extends StatusBoard_DatabaseObject {
     protected $_db_id;
     protected $_db_incident;
     protected $_db_status;
+    protected $_db_description;
     protected $_db_ctime;
         
     protected function all_for_incident(StatusBoard_Incident $incident) {
diff --git a/source/webui/templates/admin/incident.tpl b/source/webui/templates/admin/incident.tpl
index fb01cd7..9ff7a58 100644
--- a/source/webui/templates/admin/incident.tpl
+++ b/source/webui/templates/admin/incident.tpl
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@
     <thead>
         <th>Date/Time</th>
         <th>Status</th>
+        <th>Description</th>
     </thead>
     <tbody>
         {foreach from=$statuses item=status}
@@ -81,6 +82,7 @@
                     <em>{$status->ctime|date_format:'y-m-d h:i:s'}</em>
                 </td>
                 <td>{StatusBoard_Status::name($status->status)}</td>
+                <td>{$status->description|escape:html}</td>
             </tr>
         {/foreach}
     </tbody>