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With all the cuts that councils are having to make, is it time to ask whether senior executives should also feel the pain and take a pay cut?

PLUS

Ali hears from the woman whose husband and son have just shipped out to Afghanistan – what’s it like for those left behind when family members go away in the armed forces

AND

Fancy yourself as a brainbox? Ali will be testing the North East with a few Mensa teasers…