{"id":994,"date":"2013-03-27T16:39:22","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T16:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/?p=994"},"modified":"2021-10-18T08:24:32","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T08:24:32","slug":"leicestershires-230000-olympic-torch-relay-bill-leicester-mercury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/leicestershires-230000-olympic-torch-relay-bill-leicester-mercury\/","title":{"rendered":"Leicestershire’s \u00a3230,000 Olympic torch relay bill – Leicester Mercury"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Leicester Mercury’s Dan Martin reports on torch relay spending in the county<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“The council said it footed a bill of \u00a3102,641 when the torch came to the city last July.\u00a0Most of that, \u00a381,560, was spent on a giant party in Abbey Park, attended by about 20,000 people to celebrate the torch’s arrival.<\/p>\n

“The rest was spent on closing the roads, crowd barriers,\u00a0security, and first aid provision as the torch entourage passed through the city.<\/p>\n

“Leicestershire County Council told the Mercury it spent \u00a329,600 on traffic management and staffing as the torch passed through the county in July and during a rehearsal for the relay in April.<\/p>\n

“Leicestershire Police said it cost them \u00a3103,629 in staffing and overtime to supervise the rehearsal event and the real thing.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The figures tally with data we’ve\u00a0published on councils’ spending on the relay<\/a>. Leicester City Council were one of the biggest spenders in the country.<\/p>\n

The figures given to the Mercury, however, omit to mention that the total costs before external funding and income<\/a> were much higher, at around \u00a3150,000. Curiously, the city did not seem to have received any funding from LOCOG for hosting a dress rehearsal for the Olympic organisers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Leicester Mercury’s Dan Martin reports on torch relay spending in the county: “The council said it footed a bill of \u00a3102,641 when the torch came to the city last July.\u00a0Most of that, \u00a381,560, was spent on a giant party … Continue reading →<\/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":[707,704,703,706,705],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994"}],"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=994"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1211,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions\/1211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}