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Monday, August 24, 2009

Stamp Duty, Watches, Breakfast in Cannes: How Council Chiefs Spend Your Money

First it was MPs, then BBC executives - and now the sometimes comic, sometimes extravagant expenses of council chief executives have been revealed.

A Mail on Sunday investigation based on Freedom Of Information Act requests has laid bare the claims of more than 100 chief executives over the past four years.

The results reveal claims on council taxpayers of some £622,058.57. Apart from lavish meals, luxury hotel stays and millions of miles of petrol claims, the executives have been reimbursed for such delights as noodles, a sports watch, membership of a club 140 miles away and stamp duty.

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