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Businessmen linked to Purcell at centre of Labour donations row

Two businessmen who have given former council leader Steven Purcell a post with their charity are at the centre of a row over a £1.7 million land deal.

It emerged yesterday Allan Stewart and Stephen McKenna have given Purcell the role.

They denied this was “payback” for the ­council paying one of their firms for land needed for the ­Commonwealth Games.