FINANCE

Crow like a rooster

In the Chinese year of the rooster, Tony Kirkham explains why councils must be trustworthy, hard-working and sociable, but also shameless attention-seekers.

The New Year is a good time to look at challenges and what will we need to do to meet them?

2017 will be the Chinese year of the rooster and I was pondering what meaning I could take from that. The rooster is the 10th animal in the Chinese zodiac and we have been through almost 10 years of austerity. People born in the year of the rooster are said to be trustworthy, hard-working and sociable, but are also shameless attention-seekers.

Tony Kirkham

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