The costs to the licence-payer of the BBC's "free" festival in Carlisle in May last year are creeping up. The Radio 1 Big Weekend featured Lady Gaga and the Black-Eyed Peas, performing at an airfield. The Sunday Telegraph found out that the BBC had sent 210 staff, and booked over 1,600 hotel nights to cover the event. There's no word on the total cost - a similar festival in 2008 cost £880,000.
Now, in the recent releases on hospitality and expenses, we find that Trustee Alison Hastings has declared tickets (which were free) for herself and her daughter as "hospitality" - but still managed to charge £139.50 for petrol for the return journey from her home in Liverpool. And COO Caroline Thomson claimed trains from Reading to Paddington, and then Euston to Carlisle, just before the event. She has a second home just outside Carlisle. At the end of the weekend, she claimed £100 for a taxi "as no trains were running from Carlisl" (sic).
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