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When is a council spending £70,000 on supporting public transport a bad thing?

By Mark Pack | Mon 23rd February 2009 - 9:41 pm

Quite possibly when it is £70,000 blown on first class train fares for councillors and senior staff. As the Blackpool Gazette reports of its Conservative-controlled council:

BLACKPOOL Council has spent more than £70,000 on first class rail travel in the past 18 months.

The figure – today slammed by one senior councillor as “astonishing” – was revealed amid claims some councillors and senior officers were wasting taxpayers’ cash on expensive “jollies” to London …

The Gazette highlights the spending today as part of our It’s Your Money campaign to investigate how public cash is spent – and sometimes misspent.

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