This story made the front page of the Northern Echo on Saturday and even the Daily Mail today. When are Durham County COuncil going to realise that paying out £12860 every year for clothes for the Chair and vice chair is simply unacceptable?

They refused to scrap this in the budget, and also are happy to pay senior staff 65p a mile car allowances! And this is the tip of the iceberg!

Echo:

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/10262731.Row_over_councillors____12k__clothing_allowance_/?ref=mc

Daily Mail:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2287347/Council-branded-ludicrous-handing-12-000-year-CLOTHING-allowance-authoritys-chairwomen.html