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Councils have saved hundreds of thousands of pounds on printing costs during the pandemic, new figures show.
Stoke-on-Trent City Council spent £484,000 on printing between April 2020 and February 2021, compared to £965,000 in 2019/20 – a 50 per cent reduction.
And over the same period Staffordshire County Council saw its printing spend fall by 48 per cent, from £706,849 to £367,433.
RAF lost £600,000 missile system in jet test blunder
FOI request also revealed that in the same financial year the Royal Navy lost sonar equipment worth £792,000
10 May 2021 • 6:00am
The missile system was destroyed after plunging from a Typhoon jet during a test
Credit: Joint Air Delivery Test and Evaluation Unit
A high-tech missile system that cost more than £600,000 was destroyed after plunging from a Typhoon jet during a test, the RAF has admitted.
When engineers ran a test from a motionless £110 million Typhoon jet plane, the fighter s missile guiding unit, a Litening III Reconnaissance Pod, dropped off the bottom of the plane and was damaged beyond repair.
Revealed: The Ulster council boss paid over £100,000 a year
Anthony Tohill was the council s only employee earning a six-figure salary
14:09, 9 APR 2021
Anthony Tohill was Mid Ulster s highest-paid council official
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Revealed: the four ABC Council workers earning over £100,000 a year
The top earner received a 4.9 per cent pay rise up from last year
11:27, 8 APR 2021
Four council workers earn over £100,000 (Image: PA)
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The Labour Party runs almost two-thirds of authorities in England which raised council tax to the maximum amount of nearly five per cent this year, analysis by the Mail on Sunday has found.