A crisis-hit ambulance trust facing £50million in cuts has been exposed by its own staff for spending nearly £500,000 on high-end cars for bosses.

A Freedom of Information request by workers at the East of England Ambulance Service revealed that it bought a fleet of 81 vehicles, including a Jaguar XF and Mercedes C220.

These cost a total of £454,636, in addition to £151,862 spent on leasing 30 company cars for staff between September 2014 and February 2015.

Reported by The Mail Online. You can read the full story here. 

Matthew Burgess
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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.