WORCESTERSHIRE county councillors are pleased that the Press office at County Hall has up to five staff on duty.
The team can always be relied on to perform essential tasks, such as going for walkies.
Er, yes.
I hear when the newest recruit was hired, one councillor asked him to take her pooch for a stroll in the delightful grounds at County Hall.
And some of the great and good at Spetchley Road take an unreconstructed view of gender and the workplace.
Corrie Strickland, one of the PR team who left the council's employ this month, was particularly irked by councillors who asked her to type their letters allegedly, because she was the girl in the office.
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