Second Doncaster official suspended

A senior official has been suspended from a council at the centre of a police fraud investigation, it was confirmed yesterday.

Assistant planning director Graham Raynor, 46, is the second senior officer to be suspended by Labour-controlled Doncaster Council. Chief executive Doug Hale was suspended in April and has now taken early retirement. The suspension of Mr Raynor, 46, follows allegations that he secretly supported a landowner's planning application to build houses on protected green- belt land.