A COUNCIL has apologised after it published a public notice detailing councillors allowances and expenses and wrongly included £85 'travel and subsidence' for a councillor who died two years ago.

Fenland District Council paid hundreds of pounds to publish the official list of money paid to its 40 members but will now have to reprint the advertisement with the correct information.

Councillor Roger Green, a former Editor of the Wisbech Standard and Mayor of Wisbech, was killed on July 18 2011 in an accident on the A47 on the Wisbech bypass.

Officials who compiled the 2012/13 members allowance scheme payments schedule – which under a 2003 Act of Parliament the council must publish annually- failed to spot travel payments to him of £85.05 a YEAR after his death.

'Thank you for pointing out the error' a council spokesman said. 'The £85.05 listed as travel and subsistence for Cllr Roger Green was, in fact, expenses incurred by Councillor Bernard Keane.'

The spokesman added: 'We apologise for this mistake and will be republishing the list with the correct figures.'

The council spokesman said the £85.05 would be added to £64.80 already shown as having been paid to Cllr Keane.

Cllr Green, chairman of the planning committee was a councillor for 12 years having been first elected in May 1999.

His colleagues say he would probably be laughing at the council's error and pointed out to the comments made after his death by the then chief executive Sandra Claxton.

'Roger was a man of great wit and with a lovely sense of humour,' she said.