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Rocking all over the world wide web

A COUNCIL trying to cut millions from its budget has reportedly splashed out on a bizarre website based on the rock-group Status Quo in a drive to recruit a new team of highly-paid executives.

Brighton and Hove City Council, which is trying to make savings of £20m in the next year, has paid consultants around £10,000 to design the website**SayNoToStatusQuo.co.uk**.

The site, emblazoned with the words “Status Quo fans need not apply” in glittering gold lettering, is designed to attract radical candidates to fill four new strategic director roles.

The new recruits, who will be paid £125,000 each, will be tasked with securing “value for money” within the council. They will replace the previous team of six directors, who were each paid an average of £100,000.

A message on the website reads: “Forget how it’s always been done, we’re rewriting the book on Local Government, shaping and transforming how we deliver services…You’ll have unprecedented scope to make the big decisions and deliver city-wide change.”

It adds: “A love of classic rock is optional.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .