Hillingdon's chief executive to step down after 13 years with borough
CHIEF Executive Fran Beasley is to retire from Hillingdon Council at the end of the year.
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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 didn't 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 change beyond anyone's expectations. In a relatively short period of time, working for a council in a...