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Speaking to the same programme, Tony Travers, professor of public policy at the London School of Economics, said there had been 15 years of cuts to local council budgets and warned it would be "very, very hard to find substantial savings in this part of the public sector".

It will also depend on what the public want, says Prof Tony Travers of the London School of Economics.

We were very careful not to assign any political party to either Hagan or President Travers the year before or the other presidential opponent, Patrick Knox.

Yarrow was the tenor in Peter, Paul and Mary, his tender and attentive vocals sandwiched between the soothing baritone of Noel Paul Stookey and the airy contralto of Mary Travers.

Yarrow’s death leaves Stookey as the sole surviving member of Peter, Paul and Mary; Travers died in 2009 at 72.