Sam Plum has been the chief executive of Barrow Borough Council for the last two years, is one of a number of women in important positions at an authority where two of its directors are female alongside its head of legal and governance.

This is in addition to council leader Ann Thomson and leader of the opposition Hazel Edwards.

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