A multi-million pound upgrade for Hillend ski slope should be shelved in the current financial crisis, Midlothian councillors were told this week.
Councillor Peter Smaill, Conservative group leader at Midlothian Council, said it was the wrong time to be making the investment which he said now stood at £33 million.
Speaking at a meeting where councillors were presented with a list of savings proposals - including axing community funding, teaching jobs and school libraries to plug a £14m hole in next year's budget - Mr Smaill questioned why the costly project was going ahead.
