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A county council has announced it will raise local taxes, after it paid an internet prankster almost £500,000 to run its Facebook Covid page.

The role at the Harwich Royal National Lifeboat Institution in Essex has been handed to Di Bush. Ms Bush had been the stations mechanic since 2017 after joining the organisation in 2003.

But the person who set up the crowdfunding page says it might not be appropriate to name any vessel after the right-wing figure