So perhaps this is why we’ve been seeing Stuart Security at the festival since ‘03. Mean Fiddler have been forced to pay a whopping £300,000 to the West Yorkshire Police, it was said on October 24th.

The case, brought by the Office of the Force Solicitor, was heard in July and a High Court judge, this week granted an order which states that Mean Fiddler Group, the organisers of the Leeds Festival, must pay over £300,000 to West Yorkshire Police to cover the cost of extra policing around the event at Bramham.

It would appear that the police are a lot more expenisve than Stuary Security! Let’s hope that this doesn’t have any affect on the licensing for 2006!

You can read the full press release for West Yorkshire Police here: http://www.westyorkshire.police.uk/section-item.asp?sid=12&iid=1958

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