Reining in a higher than expecting budget gap will be among the priorities for the newly-announced chief executive of Somerset CC, Duncan Sharkey.
Mr Sharkey is currently chief executive of Windsor and Maidenhead LBC and will take up the post initially with the county council in the autumn and of the new unitary Somerset Council from April.
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