{"id":999,"date":"2013-03-28T10:44:57","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T10:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/?p=999"},"modified":"2021-10-18T08:24:32","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T08:24:32","slug":"sutton-guardian-picks-up-olympic-torch-relay-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/sutton-guardian-picks-up-olympic-torch-relay-figures\/","title":{"rendered":"Sutton Guardian picks up Olympic torch relay figures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Sutton Guardian<\/strong> have<a href=\"http:\/\/www.suttonguardian.co.uk\/news\/10313826.Olympic_torch_relay_cost_Sutton___9_000\/\"> reported on local spending on the Olympic torch relay<\/a> disclosed as part of Help Me Investigate&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/raided-reserves-extra-staff-and-lots-of-bunting-how-did-your-council-foot-the-13m-torch-relay-bill\/\">investigation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mike Pyle<\/strong> writes that the local council paid \u00a39,000 for the torch&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk\/news\/local\/suttonnews\/9828859.Sutton_prepares_for_Olympic_torch_relay\/\">journey through the area<\/a>. This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatdotheyknow.com\/request\/149862\/response\/366986\/attach\/html\/3\/London%20Borough%20of%20Sutton%20FOI%20response.docx.html\">covered<\/a> stewards, barriers, road closures, road signs, St John Ambulance staff, street cleaning and publicity.<\/p>\n<p>Those costs combined came to less than a fifth of the cost of <strong>bunting<\/strong> in the area, one of the highest in the country: \u00a350,000 was used from another local government body to fund the decorations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sutton Guardian have reported on local spending on the Olympic torch relay disclosed as part of Help Me Investigate&#8217;s investigation. Mike Pyle writes that the local council paid \u00a39,000 for the torch&#8217;s journey through the area. This covered stewards, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/sutton-guardian-picks-up-olympic-torch-relay-figures\/\">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":[142,459,709,143,710,708],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999"}],"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=999"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1209,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions\/1209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}