Painful and challenging – that’s how councillors have described setting their budgets for the next year.
Today, Glasgow and North Lanarkshire were among the local authorities laying out how they plan to run services while struggling with cuts to funding and rising costs.
Both faced choices of where to make cuts to cover funding gaps of millions of pounds.
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