Joe wrote in :

The panel agreed that Councillor Rosenstiel should send a full personal,
unqualified and unreserved written apology to the East of England
Ambulance Service and the ambulance driver involved in the incident in
June 2007. The form of this apology was agreed with the Hearing Panel.

So in other words, a whole bunch of taxpayers' money has been spent in
order to get an apology.

So much for "an apology costs nothing"!