Stirling’s provost has publicly apologised for comments made in the wake of a row over his invite to visit Florida.
Bannockburn ward independent councillor Alasdair MacPherson and the opposition SNP group had previously slammed the proposed use of up to £3000 of public money to pay for Provost Douglas Dodds to visit Dunedin in the US state next April.
But fellow Tory councillors then said Provost Dodds had already made his mind up not to make the trip to Dunedin, which has decades old links with Stirling, due to the cost to the taxpayer.
