MIDDLESBROUGH Council spent thousands on private detectives to chase debtors, a Northern Echo investigation can reveal.

Figures from a Freedom of Information request show that the local authority has paid almost £17,000 to private investigators since 2010.

Reported by the Northern Echo. 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.