BBC tickets - can't get them, and can't give them away!
Following the web ballot for tickets for Radio 1's Big Weekend, it seems the posties have been caught swiping them...
Posties suspended over ticket claims
By Alan Wilson
TWO POSTAL workers in Dundee have been suspended by Royal Mail after they were suspected of stealing Radio 1 Big Weekend tickets.
The employees, a man and a woman who both work in Dundee East delivery office, are alleged to have been found in possession of six pairs of tickets.
If an investigation confirms their guilt the two are likely to be sacked and a report sent to the procurator fiscal who will decide whether they have committed a criminal offence and should be prosecuted.
A spokesman for Royal Mail said the pair were uncovered by the company’s security staff….
Now, this is interesting… in that everyone who did not get tickets considers it unfair, whilst everyone else who got them via the post is happy. However, down in London, it seems as if the BBC have tickets they can’t give away – well, not legally anyway. An oversight when it came to local government legislation lead the Beeb to bring in members of staff to make up the audience, when they could not legally have public on site.
BBC staff asked to form audiences
The BBC has appealed to staff to make up the numbers in studio audiences after it found it was breaking the law by hosting shows at Television Centre.
E-mails have been sent to staff asking them to form the studio audiences for shows such as Top of the Pops.
Posties suspended over ticket claims
By Alan Wilson
TWO POSTAL workers in Dundee have been suspended by Royal Mail after they were suspected of stealing Radio 1 Big Weekend tickets.
The employees, a man and a woman who both work in Dundee East delivery office, are alleged to have been found in possession of six pairs of tickets.
If an investigation confirms their guilt the two are likely to be sacked and a report sent to the procurator fiscal who will decide whether they have committed a criminal offence and should be prosecuted.
A spokesman for Royal Mail said the pair were uncovered by the company’s security staff….
Now, this is interesting… in that everyone who did not get tickets considers it unfair, whilst everyone else who got them via the post is happy. However, down in London, it seems as if the BBC have tickets they can’t give away – well, not legally anyway. An oversight when it came to local government legislation lead the Beeb to bring in members of staff to make up the audience, when they could not legally have public on site.
BBC staff asked to form audiences
The BBC has appealed to staff to make up the numbers in studio audiences after it found it was breaking the law by hosting shows at Television Centre.
E-mails have been sent to staff asking them to form the studio audiences for shows such as Top of the Pops.
Television studios need to be licensed if the public is admitted to events featuring live music. The corporation is in the process of obtaining a premises licence to cover the complex in west London. The situation emerged after a Red Hot Chili Peppers show held in the forecourt of Television Centre last month, as part of a recording for Top of the Pops. The 2003 Licensing Act, which came into force last year, requires some public entertainment to be licensed. At the time of the Red Hot Chili Peppers concert, the BBC said it had originally been advised that it did not require a licence. Studio audiences have been admitted to the building since it opened in 1960. But following discussions with Hammersmith and Fulham Council, the local authority which covers Television Centre, it has been advised that a licence was necessary. A BBC statement said most programme production at the Shepherd's Bush complex would continue as usual. "The majority of BBC programmes will be entirely unaffected but we may need to make some changes to a few studio shows involving audiences," it said.
But staff members are being asked to make up the studio audience for shows such as Top of the Pops and Strictly Dance Fever until the situation is resolved. "We're asking for your help, and also hoping we can offer you some fun at the same time," director general Mark Thompson told staff in an e-mail.
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