REGARDING your story 'Town Hall Cash Shock' (LET, May 27), am I right in thinking that these same councillors said there would be no increases due to unitary status? My employer of years gone by served, along with many more, as a councillor for the people of Blackburn for no payment. How can these people warrant such increases at obvious public expense?

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