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The National (Scotland)
The National (Scotland)
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Gregor Young

Scottish Labour council reveals £5m cost-of-living fund

Jackie Baillie and Anas Sarwar at Holyrood. Photograph: PA

A SCOTTISH Labour-led council has unveiled a £5 million support package to help local people with the cost-of-living crisis, which would see residential care charges scrapped.

Councillors in West Dunbartonshire, where the party achieved an outright majority at last month's local elections, will be asked to approve the multimillion-pound fund to help struggling residents with rising energy prices.

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