Rupert Lowe and his Great Yarmouth First party called for a £2,000 ward bursary given to Yarmouth councillors to be scrapped and for more transparency over where the money goes.

Instead, he said the total £78,000 should be used to "keep council tax down", which would equate to a reduction of less than £1 for people in the borough.

The backlash to the scheme, which aims to give councillors a small pot of funds to support local causes in the ward they represent each year, has angered Mr Lowe's political rivals.

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