Panoramic follow-up may be put on hold

PANORAMIC, the summer's three-day jazz flavoured festival which cost Council Tax payers Â£48,000, may not be repeated next year after all.

By The Newsroom

Published 24th Oct 2002, 16:02 BST

Updated 7th Jun 2018, 19:47 BST

Rother's services scrutiny body is suggesting a holding event in 2003 with a full festival in 2004.

And the consultant paid 26,000 for advising Rother on the staging of Panoramic should be asked to submit a report, it says.

The first Rother scrutiny committee to exercise its function by calling on key figures to answer questions spent nearly two and a half hours grilling five witnesses.

They were:

*Bexhill Regeneration Partnership's town centre and tourism action group chairman Steve Ayres

*Rother chief finance officer Dr Pav Ramewal

*Community services director Tony Leonard

*Pavilion project manager Alan Haydon

*Chief executive Derek Stevens

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