It comes after an internal audit report into the circumstances surrounding the ending of the £95,000-a-year contract was apparently pulled at the last minute.
The Press understands that the report – which was to have been presented at a meeting of the council’s audit and governance committee on Wednesday – was withdrawn because there are concerns about whether it provides a ‘comprehensive enough picture of events’.
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