Shropshire Star

Event experts sought to run Telford's T-Live Festival in 2014

An event management company is being sought by Telford & Wrekin Council  to run next year's T-Live Festival.

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The crowd during the T Live concert at the Town Park arena which was headlined by McFly

The council has been criticised for not calling in expert event managers for this year's event, which lost £40,000 despite the appearance of chart-toppers McFly and several other top names.

Council leader Kuldip Sahota said: "We have begun to build a reputation in Telford for hosting events and festivals.

"The 2013 T-Live was all about demonstrating that the arena can work as a venue for major festivals and on that basis it was a huge success."

He added: "We are now looking to develop T-Live into an annual profit-making festival and we are inviting professional production management companies to bid for the production management of the 2014 event."

Tenders must be submitted by noon on December 6.

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