The boss of loss-making Prestwick Airport splashed out £1400 of tax payers’ money on a new bed.

Ron Smith, the newly-appointed £120,000-a-year chief executive, received a relocation package when he moved from Aberdeen.

Details released in a Freedom of Information response show that he also got £230 towards a bedroom carpet and £789 for a dining suite.

Reported by The Daily Record. 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.