Now Councillors Want Us to Pay for Leaving Parties

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FIRST came the Pounds 7 million payoff. Now Scotland's retiring councillors are preparing to attend farewell parties at council taxpayers' expense.

Last month, The Scottish Mail on Sunday revealed long serving public representatives were being invited to retire in May with 'golden goodbye' payments of up to Pounds 20,000 each.

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Now Councillors Want Us to Pay for Leaving Parties

Highland Council alone has been swamped by redundancy requests from half its 80 councillors, costing Pounds 685,000 of publi...

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