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Compare and contrast.

The Times: Overall, the BBC’s top bosses spent £170,975 on costs such as flights, taxis, hotels and entertaining in the period. That was up 1.6 per cent from the three months immediately before Lord Hall took over, and an increase of 1.3 per cent compared with the same quarter of the previous year.

BBC Media Centre: The figures show that spend on expenses is stable on the previous quarter and the same quarter last year.

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