Eastbourne Airbourne blunder boss loses his job

7:00pm Saturday 3rd October 2009 in News By Andy Chiles

The council boss responsible for the charging fiasco at Eastbourne's 2008 Airbourne air show has been made redundant.

Norman Kinnish is one of five senior staff at Eastbourne Borough Council who will leave their jobs through a combination of cost-cutting redundancies and retirements.

The tourism boss had overseen the controversial introduction of charging entry for Airbourne, the town's main tourist event, which saw crowds boycott the show.

The council made a loss of tens of thousands of pounds, when it had budgetted to make a £183,000 profit.

Mr Kinnish resisted calls for his resignation at the time but left yesterday when his post was abolished.

The council has moved from a system of 11 directors and assistant directors to a new management team with just three senior heads of departments.

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Comments(11)

emma barnes says...
8:26pm Sat 3 Oct 09

and the redundancy package is?.......

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Variable says...
8:50pm Sat 3 Oct 09

So how much was the Reward For Failure this time?
C'mon Argus! Ask some questions!

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tarik says...
10:44pm Sat 3 Oct 09

So that'll be actually nothing to do with last year's Airbourne then... According to that article they've just reorganised.

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Livid Harry says...
11:28pm Sat 3 Oct 09

I thought that the king of total incompetence Matthew Locke was the idiot who screwed up last year's Airbourne by introducing charges. I'm sure that's who the Argus said it was last year.
He's all but destroyed trade in Eastbourne by arrogantly insisting on the hated parking charges and other mess-ups besides...

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Darling2 says...
2:12am Sun 4 Oct 09

So who exactly employed him? No doubt not one of the redundancies. Scratch the surface in Eastbourne and you will find maggotts. 3 maggotts.

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Darling2 says...
2:34am Sun 4 Oct 09

Wage claw back is the answer.

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Eric Raccoon says...
10:19am Sun 4 Oct 09

Matthew Locke had nothing to do with Airbourne. It was Norman Kinnish who brought on the £5.00 to stand on our own seafront. He should have done the decent thing last year and resigned or at least stand up and admit that he had made a mistake. Instead he and the Lib Dem Council tried to pass the buck on to their staff in the Eastbourne Borough offices. The bottom line is that Eastbourne residents lost £360,000 of their contingency fund due to mismanagement. How much will he get as a redundancy package?

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emma barnes says...
12:24pm Sun 4 Oct 09

Eric Raccoon wrote:
Matthew Locke had nothing to do with Airbourne. It was Norman Kinnish who brought on the £5.00 to stand on our own seafront. He should have done the decent thing last year and resigned or at least stand up and admit that he had made a mistake. Instead he and the Lib Dem Council tried to pass the buck on to their staff in the Eastbourne Borough offices. The bottom line is that Eastbourne residents lost £360,000 of their contingency fund due to mismanagement. How much will he get as a redundancy package?
Eric...are you a woodland animal?

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Eric Raccoon says...
12:34pm Sun 4 Oct 09

Emma, if you don't ferret around for the truth then the weasels get away with it!

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heavenscentrose says...
2:31pm Sun 4 Oct 09

I agree totally with your initial comments, Eric Raccoon, and the ferreting comment is super! How apposite!

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bug eye says...
2:43pm Sun 4 Oct 09

.....and when will the bafoon in charge of introducing the bus lane on the a259 have his redundancy notice......

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