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I have it on good authority that the £78,750 compensation for loss of office, plus £24,782 pension contributions for former Cornwall Council Corporate Director Peter Lewis was a deal worked out between Peter himself and his boss, chief executive Kevin Lavery mano a mano. Head of legal services Richard Williams kept it, er, legal. Out of 123 democratically elected councillors, only two - the leader, Alec Robertson, and relevant Cabinet member, Jim Currie - were "kept advised." As for the other 121 councillors, the first they knew about it was when they heard it on the news.