I never saw that article back in January '14, thanks for posting Tricky.
As you can see Mike Akatiff the bill would heve been 400,000 GBP which is over $600,000. Presume they were planning on renting Bonneville for a few weeks to get James' up to speed after trying the rough concrete of Bruntingthorpe. Not sure now where they would have spent all that sum.