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Research by the TaxPayers Alliance reveals that dozens of employees are paid six-figure sums a year in council buildings where desks are empty as staff are still allowed to WFH.

EXCLUSIVE: James Whiteman, 57, received the huge sum after taking voluntary redundancy from Guildford Borough Council in Surrey, where he had been managing director, in 2021.

James Whiteman, 57, received the huge pay package after taking voluntary redundancy from Guildford Borough Council. Taxpayers have blasted the payment as a joke.

The average number of employees who received a six-figure sum in total remuneration was 7.9 per local authority, according to data compiled by the TaxPayers Alliance.

Stephen Moir will take on the role of chief executive at Cambridgeshire CC in February 2022. He is currently executive director of corporate services for

CHIEF Executive Fran Beasley is to retire from Hillingdon Council at the end of the year.

The chief executive of Hillingdon LBC has announced that she will retire at the end of the year. Fran Beasley has been at Hillingdon for thirteen years,

Like many people of my age, I sometimes ask myself whether I took the right path in life. Would I have been happier if, when young, I had set my heart on becoming a council official? It certainly didnt occur to me, or anyone advising me, that I should do so. In those days, self-effacing town clerks still ran councils. Though they usually seemed pretty competent, they were not especially well paid. Being an official was not the route to riches. Around a quarter of a century ago, this began to ch...