Edinburgh City Council wrote off £960,000 worth of fines in the 2018/19 financial year – around 16 per cent of the £6m issued in total for parking and bus lane fines.
Falkirk councillors have pledged to tackle climate change by getting the council’s emissions to net-zero by 2030 – 15 years earlier than the Scottish government target.
Lothian List MSP Miles Briggs has welcome the successful recruitment of 21 new clinical mental health staff to help deal with the mental health crisis for children and young People in Edinburgh and the Lothians.
Council bosses are set to commit £2.5bn over the next decade in order to build thousands of new affordable homes and improve existing houses – labelled “one of the most ambitious” projects set to take place across the UK.
Falkirk Council will almost certainly end the financial year with an overspend of over a million pounds – leaving it with dwindling reserves of just over £9m.
Fiona Hyslop MSP has welcomed the commitment made at Holyrood last week from the Minister for Energy, Connectivity and the Islands, Paul Wheelhouse, to deliver access to superfast broadband to every home and business in the country.
The Labour group on Falkirk Council says that recent figures from Audit Scotland show that council funding has been cut “not to the bone, but to the marrow in the bone and we cannot go on like this”.
City of Edinburgh Council chiefs are exploring the possibility of introducing a congestion charge – but Edinburgh residents would be exempt in a bid to encourage commuters to use public transport.
A successful pilot scheme that helped parents recover more than £250,000 could be rolled out across the Capital to help people living in poverty recoup an estimated £80m a year in unclaimed benefits.
Lothian List MSP Miles Briggs (Con) recently met representatives from the Marie Curie Hospice to hear about the care offered locally to people living with a terminal illness and their loved ones.
