Local tax rates have been frozen or capped for much of the last 20 years, but look set to increase.

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Scotland’s councils continue to face severe financial pressures. It’s more important than ever that they consult with communities to clearly communicate the impact on local services. The Convention of ...

Scotland’s local authorities are grappling with significant financial strain, necessitating urgent transformation to ensure sustainability, the Accounts Commission has revealed. While councils managed ...

Our directory brings together local support and things to do in the community to make it easier for people to help themselves, their families, and those they care for. We're working together with ...

In Scotland, all 32 local authorities have now agreed to receive asylum applicants in a proportional and planned approach. Sean Clerkin, campaign co-ordinator for the STO added: "We have to treat ...

Birmingham City Council is poised to reveal a worse-than-expected financial position as it embarks on a savings drive and ‘inevitable’ job cuts, The MJ has learned.

Scotland is brimming with potential ... or locally owned and run shops, creating jobs for local people, with profits reinvested and new opportunities created, then there is economic life; there is ...

The Metropolitan Borough of Wirral is a peninsula with a population of 320,000. Wirral had an older population than the rest of England, with those aged 65 years and over making up 22% of the ...

County maps (those that represent the county as a whole rather than focussing on specific areas) present an overview of the wider context in which local settlements and communities developed. Although ...

So here’s a selection of just a few of Scotland’s 151 distilleries, plus our own personal favourites. We’ve chosen lesser-known treasures amongst them, so your contribution round the ...

PARTS of Scotland are set to be battered by a snow bomb this week as weather maps warn that a wild storm is looming. The flurries will see most of the country blanketed in the white stuff just as ...