TWO media professionals hired by Argyll and Bute Council to deal with press enquiries after it suspended three of its own communications staff were paid £250 a day each.
The self-employed communications chiefs, employed between February and August, were paid a total of £8059.
The figure has been described as embarrassing by the leader of the opposition, but defended by the authority as competitive.
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