Falkirk Council staff will get an extra day's holiday to mark the coronation of King Charles, after councillors rejected a suggestion that another holiday should be moved to cover it.
Labour and Conservative members of Falkirk Council 's executive, along with Independent councillor Robert Spears, voted to give staff both May 1 and May 8 as a public holiday. Officers had urged members to move the existing May 1 holiday for the royal event in a bid to save cash.
A report to councillors said that the cost to the council of an additional public holiday would be £260,000, at a time when budgets have never been more under pressure.
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