Recently, we asked the Electoral Commission for a copy of every single invoice/receipt/document from the recent Labour party campaign expenditure return.

Why? Because most articles on the subject of expenditure seemed to be based on the work of a single journalist/researcher and we wanted to give the documents a good going-over ourselves.

As chance would have it, the data we requested from the Electoral Commission becomes available from today.

But there's a problem...

Originally, it was estimated that there were 1,500 documents relating to Labour's expenditure. Now the photocopying has been done, it turns out that there are 2,790 of them... so we're caught short on our very tight budget and find ourselves £129 shy of the total copying fee.

That's where you come in.

If you can spare £5, £10 or £20, it would be greatly appreciated.

If we get over and above the required amount, we'll let you know ASAP (and perhaps begin a further fund-raising drive so we can also afford to scan and publish every single document online... then *you* can give them a good going-over, too).

Click here to donate.

Cheers all.

UPDATE - OK folks, we're there. And then some. Thank you to everyone who donated. Especially our most generous donor by far... Julian Todd of Public Whip.