Tony Blair's team of bodyguards are costing taxpayers £250,000 a year in expenses alone as they stay in some of the world’s most exclusive locations, running up vast bills for luxury hotels and expensive meals while the former PM swells his £20 million personal fortune. The BBC is spending hundreds of thousands of pounds on moving staff out of state-of-the-art studios only nine months after they moved in. Sir Terry Wogan has spoken out about excessive salaries at the BBC – saying its stars could afford to take a 15 per cent pay cut.Five star luxury of Blairs' police squad: Astonishing £5,000 a week expense claims
(right down to £1.19 packet of Percy Pigs)
Hundreds of BBC staff forced to work out of makeshift studios
in £830m office move fiasco
BBC stars could take a 15% pay cut, says Sir Terry Wogan
Sunday, 4 July 2010
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