Pounds1.3m Cost of Mps' Home Makeovers ; Taxpayers Funded a Million-Pound Second Home Makeover for Westcountry Mps to Live the High Life at Public Expense.

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Taxpayers funded a million-pound second home makeover for Westcountry MPs to live the high life at public expense.

From bathrooms to beds, designer furniture to dusters, the WMN today publishes the fullest details yet of how public money was used - and abused - by the region's politicians to the tune of pounds1.3 million.

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Pounds1.3m Cost of Mps' Home Makeovers ; Taxpayers Funded a Million-Pound Second Home Makeover for Westcountry Mps to Live the High Life at Public Expense.

Thousands have been spent hiring gardeners and cleaners while the total food bill for the region's MPs topped pounds100,000 in just four years.

The scandal has triggered a wave of panicked paybacks, with Devon and Cornwall MPs returning almost pounds22,000 to public coffers.

And Scotland Yard indic...

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