Chiefs Face Flak After 'Vanishing' Pounds 37m Exposed ; Opposition Fury As Auditors Blast State of Authority's Bookkeeping

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Council finance chiefs in Wiltshire 'lost Pounds 37 million' after they told auditors they were millions in the black - but in fact they were Pounds 21.5 million in the red.

The state of the budget books at Wiltshire County Council has been slammed by official auditors in a damning report, and because 'the same people' are now in charge of the new unitary authority for the county, opposition leaders called into question their competence to run the new authority last night.

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Chiefs Face Flak After 'Vanishing' Pounds 37m Exposed ; Opposition Fury As Auditors Blast State of Authority's Bookkeeping

It has emerged auditors KPMG questioned the 'poor quality' of the accounts, but when one senior finance chie...

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