An interesting article in the Telegraph today that manages to mention Essex:
….As for Mr Pickles’s despised “?230,000 chief executives”, there are several in that income bracket in Tory council-land, too: the chief executive of Conservative Essex, Joanna Killian, on ?237,000, plus pension contributions of ?47,000; Kent’s Peter Gilroy, with a salary and bonus of ?225,000, plus a pension of ?56,000; Suffolk’s Andrea Hill (?218,000, plus ?49,000 pension), and many others.
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Mrs Hill has now been suspended amid questions about her fondness for luxury hotels at council taxpayers’ expense. But perhaps the most egregious sleepover of all was by Mike Whitby, the Conservative leader of Birmingham City Council, who took a ?750-a-night suite at the Hyatt hotel during the 2008 Conservative Party conference, which was in Birmingham that year. The Hyatt is three miles from Cllr Whitby’s home.