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    None of this stuff is any good without context and it is the usual annual sensationalist report from the Dover Express!!

    Couple of examples picked up by the Ashford press.....

    REPORT - Ashford Borough Council spend £900,000 on train fairs
    ACTUAL - it was a grant for the station forecourt paid over as a grant

    REPORT- Ashford Borough Council spend £10,000 on homeopaths
    ACTUAL - it was a leaseholder who had a sideline as a homeopath, but the papers picked it up from the yellow pages

    REPORT- Ashford Borough Council spend £xxx (can't remember how much) on Theatre Tickets
    ACTUAL - these are tickets sold by the Tourist Information Centre and paid by the public with the council actually receiving commission and making a small profit

    These £250+ spends reports are more trouble than they are worth, with no context or reasoning or explanation!!! You get a council with 16,000 odd invoices a year the lists are pointless, thats why there are annual accounts and allowances for the public to examine them !!!

    They take no account of if the money is received as a grant, if profits are made, if they are just a recharge...

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