STORMY scenes greeted the news that top county council officers were to get a pay rise of about 30 per cent.
Angry Tories accused the Labour group on Lancashire County Council of pushing through the rise in secret. And the council chairman turned off the Tory finance spokesman's microphone at a council meeting to stop him speaking.
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