[Shasown]

Hey come on this could be the last jolly some of those hard working BBC type people get. If they do lose the licence fee and have to go commercial they certainly wont ever be able to afford Freebies like this in the future.

Then again it could be a sweetener to some of the deadwood, they should be getting rid of in this economic downturn.



Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we diet.



Incidentally someone at the BBC or NOTW really does need to get their thumb out and buy a calculator. A BBC spokeswoman said it budgeted £10,000-11,000 per member of staff

11,000 Budget per staff member
x 295 Number of lucky barstewards going on holiday for the Beeb.
= 3,245,000
+
1,000,000 For the new studio,
=
4,245,000

I presume the other 1.75 million is the kitty for duty frees and souvenirs