Every Night the Bbc Lectures Us On Climate Change. So Why Did Their Bosses Make 68,000 Domestic F Lights in Two Years ; Deputy Director General Mark Byford Took Plane to Open Golf...Three Hours by Traindirector General Mark Thompson F Lew to Newcastle for Tory Drinks Party... And Glasgow for Concert [Scot Region]

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ITS viewers are frequently subjected to warnings about climate change. Yet the BBC has spent nearly Pounds 5 million on tens of thousands of short-haul flights across Britain for its executives, staff and guests.

At a time when programmes regularly highlight the environmental impact of air travel, licence fee payers have funded more than 68,000 internal trips over the last two years - an average of nearly 100 flights a day.

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Every Night the Bbc Lectures Us On Climate Change. So Why Did Their Bosses Make 68,000 Domestic F Lights in Two Years ; Deputy Director General Mark Byford Took Plane to Open Golf...Three Hours by Traindirector General Mark Thompson F Lew to Newcastle for Tory Drinks Party... And Glasgow for Concert [Scot Region]

The BBC's daily carbon footprint generated by the UK air trips is the equivalent of that produced by the average person in a year, say environmental experts.

Among the users of domestic flights was the BBC's deputy director general Mark Byford who flew from Southampton ...

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