The Strictly Come Dancing was ANOTHER different problem exposed by the BBC.

It is a bit of a rum do!

In fairness though most of the air ambulance charities drag in personalities to further enhance their money making .... some they pay for - some they do not. Looking back over the well known faces involved with TAAS there are sports players and minor Royals as well as those expensive dancers.

If the event had gone well we may never have heard about the £100K losses in the first place and this will not be the first or the last such event to fail.

I see that the AAA Trustees have decided to suspend TAAS membership pending the outcome of the renewed Charity Commission enquiry.

Clearly supportive and pulling together!

No matter how this goes I suspect that TAAS will never rejoin AAA again. I recall the AAA CEO telling me that it took superhuman efforts to get them to sign up in the first place.

I'm assuming that no-one commenting here actually read the Sunday Times piece? The implication is that the CEO of TAAS is celebrity-obsessed and used charity funds to further his ambition to cosey up to celebs. I can imagine that Mr. Williamson - while showing off to the members of Little Mix in front of his children and their friends (no...honestly!) - would say 'I run The Air Ambulance Service' and 'we operate nationally'. Both of which may technically be correct, but represent a gross manipulation of the truth!

Here's a little more local summary of the situation as it stands: https://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/n...vice-1-8430051

Bryn, I have no connection with the AAA, but I would imagine that TAAS would be welcomed back into the fold once due process has taken place. However I suspect that would only occur once the CEO and perhaps the board of Trustees of TAAS have been 'overhauled'.

SOrry to change the topic of conversations a bit. Just out of curiosity, how many hours per year does the average hems pilot fly in the UK?