THERE is at present much hand-wringing on the part of local authorities as they try to take what I accept are difficult budget decisions while they try to balance their books. If we can start by accepting that the Tory years of austerity have had a damaging impact on Scotland’s finances at both national and local levels, then inevitably this has made life very difficult for council budgets. However, I think that our councils could be doing much more to ease the pressures on our important local
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