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Mr Martin, a one-time Lothian regional councillor, thinks the salaries paid to local politicians should also be reexamined. “We need to ensure the people running the city are paid at an appropriate level. If I remember back to my own time when I was in charge of the police authority, I was paid £6000 a year – which was less than the bicycle, typewriter and stockings allowances which were negotiated away in 1996.”
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