Jul 8, 2010 at 23:35 
Andrew is the patron saint of Greece, Prussia, Romania, Russia, Scotland, Ukraine, and sports-themed regional promotion. At the St Andrews Open (a golf thing) our plucky council workers will be promoting us for all they're worth, but it may be a waste of their time and our money, which is why there's a row over the Council's £40,000 golf trip...
Jul 8, 2010 at 21:20 Well, here's a thought - "Councillors are transient amateurs whose chosen hobby is to play at local politics" - and as a result, it is the councillors (not the rest of us) who should foot the bill.
Jun 17, 2010 at 21:00 
Expenses, expenses - dontcha just love them? No suggestion here of unseemly duck houses or whatnot, I believe this is all above-board, as-per-normal stuff. It all mounts up pretty quickly, far exceeding the projected savings from museum closures, for example. But it's the salaries that bug me. And Mr Parris has a point.
CCC | Keywords: Alex Perkins, Budget, John Gilbey, Julia Seath, Peter Vickery-Jones Jun 17, 2010 at 20:33 The nitty-gritty in all its unadorned nitty-grittiness. Here are our councillors' expenses for 2009 - find out who's chatty, who's got wanderlust, and who's just very, very special. I've corrected a couple of errors in the table as it appeared in the HB Times, and re-jigged it as an Excel spreadsheet. There's a link at the bottom of the article for you to download it.
Mar 18, 2010 at 17:47 
Just to quickly refresh your memory, dear reader, we are living in times of budget cuts and belt-tightening. There has been widespread local coverage of Canterbury City Council slashing, cutting, trimming and salami slicing. In the expectation that their central funding will be reduced, CCC has been wielding the knife on all but the biggest projects. It came as an unwelcome surprise to me that CCC was proposing to make a £20,000 "contribution to hospitality for the Open Golf Tournament at Sandwich".
CCC | Keywords: Budget, Golf, John Gilbey 
