Sport Wednesbury - The Plot Thickens!

Adrian Goldberg has done two excellent pieces this morning on Radio WM (at 7.26 and at around 8.45 if you want to catch it on the iPlayer) concerning the Sport England grant to Wednesbury Celebrates/Sport Wednesbury and the appointment of Richard Jones's Partner or "close personal friend", Richard McVittie, as a "Sports Activator". Richard Jones is, of course, one of the sons of Labour Councillors Olwen and Ian Jones (although Ian has currently voluntarily suspended his party membership).

The BBC have done some further research on the back of my blogs and were told by the Treasurer of "Wednesbury Celebrates" - who I believe is Labour Councillor Elaine Costigan -  that the recruitment of McVittie was all above board and undertaken by "Health for Living" but when the BBC contacted them they denied this.

The BBC were then referred to the Murray Hall Community Trust but they "refused to comment" on this matter. The Chair of that Trust is, of course, Robert Kevin Lloyd - better known as, er, Labour Councillor, Bob Lloyd.

And so yet another Labour Councillor is being dragged into this shaming degringolade!

Congratulations to the BBC for shining a light on this issue although Adrian Goldberg will no doubt now be accused of "harassment"!!!!!

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