A £4 million increase in Renfrewshire Council's predicted shortfall in just three months has been branded "quite worrying" during a key debate.
A potential black hole of £31m in the next three years, first estimated in June, has already deteriorated to £35m, painting a bleak financial picture for the local authority.
The seriousness of the situation was laid bare in a report by finance director Alastair MacArthur, who warned of the "rapidly increasing levels of risk" on the horizon and said the council's stability was "under much greater pressure" than that of the last decade.
