FOI reveals complaints over swearing in the tweenies and sexual content in...
Swearing in the Tweenies and sexual content in Blue Peter are among the complaints that have been made against children’s television by apparently disgusted viewers, it has been revealed. Nudity in...
View ArticleFOI reveals BBC spends £28.8m on hotels in three years
The BBC spent £28.8million on hotels for staff in the past three years including one room costing £632.67-a-night, it has been revealed. The bill is up by 32 per cent in the past year, with up-front...
View ArticleFOI reveals BBC spent almost £700,000 on headhunters in 2013
The BBC’s headcount has risen over the last two years to more than 22,000 – despite a pledge to dramatically reduce numbers by 2017. It has also emerged that last year the corporation spent over...
View ArticleFOI reveals BBC staff allowed to keep their job despite being disciplined for...
The BBC sacked 14 out of 78 employees found guilty of misdemeanors including fraud, theft or misusing resources last year, according to new figures. The details, released via a freedom of information...
View ArticleFOI reveals BBC hands out hundreds of free Wimbledon tickets to wealthy...
The BBC was under fire last night for treating hundreds of politicians, wealthy businessmen and its own staff to free tickets for Wimbledon. While ordinary members of the public have to spend hundreds...
View ArticleFOI reveals BBC taxi bill to ferry staff to and from Broadcasting House hits...
The BBC has come under fire after new figures showed spending on taxis for staff at its Broadcasting House headquarters has soared by nearly 60 per cent. A Freedom of Information Request has shown it...
View ArticleFOI reveals BBC blows £220,000 of licence fee payers’ money on training staff...
The BBC has spent more than £220,000 on iPhone lessons for staff. Figures have revealed the corporation spent licence fee payers’ money teaching 783 employees how to properly use the gadget over a...
View ArticleFOI reveals BBC paid £10million in redundancy payments to staff who are rehired
Hundreds of well-paid executives have had pay-offs and then returned to the Corporation, sometimes just months later. After receiving settlements averaging nearly £36,000 each, 286 staff have been...
View ArticleFOI reveals BBC spends ‘£70,000 of licence-payers’ money on annual party
The BBC spent £70,000 of licence-payers’ money on an annual party for local radio staff despite plans to axe 400 jobs, it has been claimed. Costs for the Corporation’s annual Gillard Awards included a...
View ArticleFOI reveals BBC spent £700,000 refurbishing Welsh HQ which is due to be...
The colossal amount of cash was spent “sprucing up” the building’s office space and studios even though they have already been earmarked for the bulldozer. A shocked insider branded the expenditure...
View ArticleFOI reveals BBC spends £2,500 a week buying copies of The Guardian
The BBC has been accused of ‘propping up its friends in the Left-wing media’ after new figures revealed it spends nearly £2,500 a week on the Guardian. The Corporation spent £127,643 on the...
View ArticleFOI reveals visitors almost halve at Southampton’s SeaCity Museum
Southampton’s £15m SeaCity Museum has seen visitor numbers fall by almost half since it opened three years ago, its latest figures show. A BBC Freedom of Information request has found that 78,000...
View ArticleFOI reveals more than 13,000 in Scotland fined for not paying TV licence fee
Almost 13,500 people in Scotland were found guilty of failing to pay their TV licence in the last year, with those in Glasgow most likely to be offenders. Figures obtained under a freedom of...
View ArticleFOI reveals £500 to feed BBC bosses in a meeting
The BBC’s highest-paid bosses have been spending up to £500 a time on food for staff meetings, according to figures disclosed under the Freedom of Information Act. Rank and file staff are only allowed...
View ArticleFOI reveals number of female BBC staff over 60 has dropped in last five years
After its high-profile sexism and ageism rows, you might think the BBC had learnt its lesson. But nearly five years after Miriam O’Reilly won her landmark case against the Corporation, it appears to...
View ArticleFOI reveals BBC News has 250 ‘managers’ and 750 ‘editors’
There are more than 750 ‘editors’ and 250 ‘managers’ in BBC News, according to a Freedom of Information response from the corporation. As of 31 October 2015, there were 764 people in BBC News – more...
View ArticleFOI BBC fatcats waste £20,000 on cabs that weren’t needed
The bloated corporation, which costs the licence fee payer £145.50 a year, also spent more than £50,000 on cabs that were left waiting for clients with the meter running. The figures, released...
View ArticleFOI reveals libraries lose a quarter of staff as hundreds close
Almost 8,000 jobs in UK libraries have disappeared in six years, about a quarter of the overall total, an investigation by the BBC has revealed. Over the same period, some 15,500 volunteers have been...
View ArticleFOI reveals Top Gear bosses blew £6,500 on policing Cenotaph stunt
Top Gear bosses have been forced to admit they blew £6,500 of licence fee cash policing their controversial Cenotaph stunt, the Sunday People can reveal. Official documents show NINE officers were...
View ArticleFOI reveals BBC gives away 421 free Wimbledon tickets
The BBC has come under fire for treating hundreds of its own staff, politicians and journalists from Russian and Turkish state TV to free tickets for Wimbledon. While ordinary members of the public...
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