JENNIFER DEMPSIE AND THAT £150,000 GRANT

FEBRUARYaide Jennifer 3, Dempsie2015 Formeris hired Alexby DF Salmond Concerts to manage ‘strategic communication flow’ over T in the Park’s move to Strathallan.

MARCH 13 Miss Dempsie arranges for DF Concerts chief executive Geoff Ellis to meet Skills Secretary and local MSP Roseanna Cunningham for talks.

MARCH 27 Deputy First Minister John Swinney and Mr Ellis discuss T in the Park’s ‘economic benefits’ at a meeting arranged and attended by Miss Dempsie.

MARCH 31 Miss Dempsie brokers meeting between Mr Ellis and Transport Minister Derek Mackay to address traffic issues at new venue.

APRIL 17 Miss Dempsie emails Perth and Kinross Council, without disclosing her links to DF Concerts, to voice support for T in the Park’s move to the Strathallan Estate.

MAY 12 Perth and Kinross Council gives the go-ahead for Scotland’s biggest music festival to take place at Strathallan.

MAY 14 Miss Dempsie personally contacts Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop’s office to set up a meeting with Mr Ellis.

MAY 26 Miss Dempsie’s short-term contract with DF Concerts comes to an end.

MAY 28 Meeting between Miss Hyslop and Mr Ellis takes place, at which a £150,000 payment from the public purse is agreed – despite DF Concerts’ £4.5million pre-tax profits.

JULY 24 The £150,000 grant is eventually paid, almost two weeks after T in the Park finished, amid growing anger.

AUGUST 13 Former SNP leader Gordon Wilson urges party bosses to ‘re-interview’ Miss Dempsie over her Holyrood bid, arguing she has ‘personally lost credibility’.

AUGUST 21 Pressure grows as public spending watchdog Audit Scotland announces investigation into the affair.

SEPTEMBER 12 Miss Dempsie announces she has abandoned her bid to become a Highlands and Islands Nationalist MSP.