{"id":1064,"date":"2013-06-21T06:58:08","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T06:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/?p=1064"},"modified":"2021-10-18T08:24:48","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T08:24:48","slug":"hartlepool-olympic-torch-relay-costs-maritime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/hartlepool-olympic-torch-relay-costs-maritime\/","title":{"rendered":"Hartlepool Council drilled about festival funds raid for Olympic torch relay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Hartlepool_olympic_torch_relay.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-1065 aligncenter\" title=\"Hartlepool Mail olympic torch relay piece\" alt=\"Hartlepool Mail olympic torch relay piece\" src=\"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Hartlepool_olympic_torch_relay.png\" width=\"471\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Hartlepool_olympic_torch_relay.png 523w, http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Hartlepool_olympic_torch_relay-300x178.png 300w, http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Hartlepool_olympic_torch_relay-500x298.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 471px) 100vw, 471px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hartlepool Council<\/strong> have defended their decision to fund part of the Olympic Torch Relay with money intended for a maritime festival.<\/p>\n<p>The Hartlepool Mail spoke to the council after finding out about the spending <a href=\"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/raided-reserves-extra-staff-and-lots-of-bunting-how-did-your-council-foot-the-13m-torch-relay-bill\/\">through<\/a>\u00a0Help Me Investigate. They <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk\/news\/local\/hartlepool-council-defends-olympic-relay-fund-1-5781526\">report<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The Maritime Festival had a budget of \u00a335,000 and officers say around 10 per cent of that, plus external\u00a0sports\u00a0funding, covered the \u00a310,000 cost of hosting the Olympic Torch.<\/p>\n<p>[A council spokesman said] \u201cThe bulk of the Maritime Festival budget was spent on staging the Diamond Festival, a celebration of the Queen\u2019s Diamond Jubilee which took place on the weekend of June 2\/3 \u2013 two weeks prior to the arrival of the torch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe subsequent decision to end the Maritime Festival was part of the council\u2019s wide-ranging strategy to deal with Government budget cuts and it had nothing whatsoever to do with the money spent on hosting the Olympic Torch.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hartlepool Council have defended their decision to fund part of the Olympic Torch Relay with money intended for a maritime festival. The Hartlepool Mail spoke to the council after finding out about the spending through\u00a0Help Me Investigate. They report: &#8220;The &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/hartlepool-olympic-torch-relay-costs-maritime\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[79,3],"tags":[680,768,769,770],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064"}],"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=1064"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1225,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions\/1225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}