Highland Council pays £22,000 per day on consultants

We keep hearing there's no money but the Press and Journal has come up with some alarming statistics:

'Highland Council is spending almost £22,000 a day on consultants – £5,000 more than the average annual salary of workers in the region.
It spent £9.5million hiring outside experts over a 20-month period between April 2008 and November 2009 – the equivalent of £21,883 every working day.'

Five days worth of consultants would fix the Links School roof then? You'll get the full story on the Press and Jounal site.