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News · 6 August 2026
Every North Wales council leader, apart from the one on Anglesey, receives an annual payment of £71,025, a sum that exceeds the remuneration of Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council's leader in England by nearly £30,000. A Conwy town councillor called the pay gap and pension contributions "unsustainable" and "obscene amounts".
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