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Thu 02 Feb 2011Cuts make councils pull the chain on a great British convenience
LONDON LETTER:IT WAS not supposed to be like this. Prime minister David Cameron wanted local authorities to wage a relentless war on the salaries of top executives, wasteful spending and administration costs.
Instead, it seems some authorities have focused their opening fire on the remaining stock of public lavatories – which have fallen in number, by over 40 per cent in the last decade.
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