In an e-mail to council staff, George Black said that reports of Mr Purcell’s problems with cocaine and alcohol and subsequent allegations over his political dealings had attempted to devalue the authority’s achievements since 2005.
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‘City is not just about one man’
The chief executive of Glasgow City Council has broken his silence on the controversial departure of Steven Purcell, insisting that improvements in the city in recent years were not due to the sole efforts of the former leader.
