{"id":1020,"date":"2013-05-20T21:02:53","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T21:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/?p=1020"},"modified":"2021-10-18T08:24:48","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T08:24:48","slug":"useful-olympic-links-for-may-10th-through-may-20th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/useful-olympic-links-for-may-10th-through-may-20th\/","title":{"rendered":"Useful Olympic links for May 10th through May 20th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Olympic news roundup for 20:51:<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisissomerset.co.uk\/Councils-count-cost-London-2012-Olympic-Torch\/story-19034852-detail\/story.html#axzz2Trt1GI1t\">Councils count the cost of London 2012 Olympic Torch Relay | This is Somerset<\/a> &#8211; \u201cThe investment we made has proven to be worth every penny and we are in no doubt it will leave a lasting legacy,\u201d said a spokesman for the Trowbridge-based unitary council, who added that the publicity for Wiltshire was valued at \u201c\u00a34 million\u201d. Swindon, Gloucestershire and Somerset said they didn\u2019t s<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.burnleycitizen.co.uk\/news\/10430324.Lancashire_County_Council_refuses_to_reveal_Olympic_torch_relay_cost\/\">Lancashire County Council refuses to reveal Olympic torch relay cost (From Burnley and Pendle Citizen)<\/a> &#8211; Nottingham City Council also did not return any sums.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk\/news\/local-national\/uk\/6m-cost-of-olympic-torch-relay-29277932.html\">\u00a36m cost of Olympic Torch relay &#8211; BelfastTelegraph.co.uk<\/a> &#8211; England&#8217;s largest local councils spent more than \u00a36 million hosting the Olympic Torch for last year&#8217;s Games, figures published on the one-year anniversary of the start of the relay show.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/news\/local-news\/olympic-torch-relays-golden-day-3812817\">Olympic torch relay\u2019s golden day left town with bill for \u00a353,000 &#8211; Manchester Evening News<\/a> &#8211; Nearly \u00a35,000 went on road closures, barriers and signs, around \u00a3730 on volunteer costs, \u00a320,000 on advertising and promotion, \u00a33,700 on events staged on the day and \u00a3310 on torch bearers\u2019 support. Another \u00a324,598 was spent on staff costs which went into organising the event, although the council say<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/m.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk\/story.html?aid=18933752\">\u00a3189k taxpayers bill to host Olympic torch relay in Stoke-on-Trent<br \/>\n<\/a> &#8211;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.co.uk\/news\/local-west-yorkshire-news\/2013\/05\/08\/56k-olympic-torch-relay-bill-for-kirklees-council-tax-payers-was-it-worth-it-86081-33296436\/\">\u00a356k Olympic Torch relay bill for Kirklees council tax payers: Was it worth it? &#8211; Local West Yorkshire News &#8211; News &#8211; Huddersfield Examiner<\/a> &#8211;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olympic news roundup for 20:51:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[459,677,214,673,6,597,220],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1227,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions\/1227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}