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Rix came to HBC with a golden handshake and then proceeded to milk the council for all it was worth with one failed improvement scheme after another. lots of government dosh spent on consultancy fees and feasibility studies but very little to show for it in terms of material improvements. After ten years of Empire building his bubble burst and he "resigned" with another, even bigger, golden handshake. His stated aim at the time was to go into private consultancy work. HAve a look at Hyndburn First and The East Lancashire Partnership, they are largely his creations and as such are more or less unaccountable to the people of the borough in whose name and for whose benefit they were set up.