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Daily Record
Daily Record
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Fraser Clarke

£3m slashed from West Dunbartonshire Council services as £21m budget gap addressed

Cuts to school bus services, reduced hours at recycling centres and council parking enforcement have all been approved as the local authority moved to close its £21million budget gap.

Council leader Martin Rooney previously said that West Dunbartonshire Council (WDC) faces, “its most significant financial challenge ever”, as decisions were taken last week to save the local authority more than £3m in the next financial year.

However, the opposition SNP group have accused Labour of running the council “like a dictatorship” due to a lack of consultation with the public on cuts.

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