A bombshell report, released by experts at the LGA, has found serious holes in Labour's 24/25 budget process, finding that it lacked collaboration and focused too heavily on short term savings targets and not enough on investing to save programmes.
Liberal Democrat councillors have called on Labour council bosses to reverse their decision to scrap Ward Highways funding which can be used for much-needed improvements to local roads, footpaths and cycle paths.
Responding to the embargoed report from the Accounts Commission which warns that Scotland’s councils faced a collective gap of up to £585 million between the money needed to deliver services and the money available when setting their budgets this year and
Liberal Democrat Scottish affairs spokesperson Christine Jardine MP has today accused the Prime Minister of “ignoring peoples’ pain” as research commissioned by her party revealed that as many as 80,000 households are set to see their mortgages hiked by N
The Liberal Democrats will continue in power at Portsmouth City Council until at least 2026 following the Annual Council.
In Mental Health Awareness Week, Orkney’s MSP Liam McArthur has joined cross-party calls for the Scottish Government to commit long-term funding to the Scottish Men’s Sheds Association, calling it a ‘vital organisation’.
