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MILLIONS of voters go to the polls on Thursday in county council elections dominated by the austerity debate.
For three weeks voters have been bombarded with leaflets claiming frontline services are under siege because of the spending squeeze, but new Freedom of Information research reveals some public sector workers may not be quite as hard-pressed as they would like us all to think.
A study of internet searches reveals countless hours wasted on website browsing which has nothing to do with public service delivery.
Council workers are catching up with mates on Facebook, shopping for online bargains and even searching for Mr Right through dating sites. . Taxpayers are paying for good schools and clean streets, not a nine-to-five trawl of sugardaddy.com.