{"id":990,"date":"2013-03-21T15:48:02","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T15:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/?p=990"},"modified":"2021-10-18T08:24:32","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T08:24:32","slug":"the-olympic-letters-that-cost-as-much-as-road-closures-birmingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/the-olympic-letters-that-cost-as-much-as-road-closures-birmingham\/","title":{"rendered":"The Olympic letters that cost as much as road closures &#8211; Birmingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Birmingham Mail have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/local-news\/birmingham-city-council-spent-16000-1749041\">published one of the stories<\/a> from our <a href=\"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/discover-your-councils-torch-relay-spending-and-help-find-out-more\/#more-972\">investigation into torch relay spending<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Birmingham City Council spent over \u00a316,000 on letters to residents when the Olympic torch relay came through the region &#8211; almost as much as it spent on road closures.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Birmingham&#8217;s costs, including \u00a39,000 for security, came to \u00a343,000.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Neighbouring Walsall spent just under \u00a322,000 on their leg of the relay, despite it spending less than three hours in the region, with security costs coming to \u00a311,000 and a further \u00a32,220 spent on staff overtime.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Birmingham Mail have published one of the stories from our investigation into torch relay spending: &#8220;Birmingham City Council spent over \u00a316,000 on letters to residents when the Olympic torch relay came through the region &#8211; almost as much as &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/the-olympic-letters-that-cost-as-much-as-road-closures-birmingham\/\">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":[457,700,143,701],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990"}],"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=990"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1212,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions\/1212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}