1.   All deputies were either party members or carefully vetted non-party people.

2.   The deputy Mayor is not vice-chairman of the council.

3.   The deputies were concerned about the inflationary effect of proposed increases in the minimum wage and the possibility of reforms being imposed by Paris.

4.   Vaudier also said that his position as an opposition deputy had been extremely serious and humiliating and that he had himself been arrested and held for two days.

5.   So too is his deputy, the pastry chef and three of the waiting staff.

6.   But, Summers insists, his deputy Clyde Tolson was also his lover.

7.   The then deputy was an equally able person who never tolerated any nonsense.

8.   Among those who resigned was the deputy for emergencies, Konstantin Tolstoshein, who had briefly run the province after Nazdratenko quit.

9.   Anderson declined to comment on whether any current or former deputies were under investigation in the killings.