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Councils are too big - but there is still something worth salvaging

The Highland Council area spans far and wide

LESLEY Riddoch’s latest column was a great read as usual (The size of council areas matters to locals – but also for independence, May 5).

At the start of Highland Council, my employment transferred to it from the former regional council. The change was attractive in two ways: it created a unitary council and it got rid of some frankly poisonous goings-on in some of the former district councils.

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