A bid to increase council tax by nearly 5% in Midlothian was narrowly defeated as councillors clashed over the charges.
The local authority's Labour administration put forward plans for a 4.7% increase after Scottish Government guidance that they could raise the annual cost as long as it was less than inflation.
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