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Edinburgh Live
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Stuart Sommerville

West Lothian bus services, bins and lollipop crossing staff face cuts in brutal budget

Scrapping subsidised bus services, getting rid of lollipop staff and charging people to collect garden waste are among budget-cutting proposals set to go before councillors in West Lothian.

The wide reaching cutbacks have been proposed by council officers to help meet the budget shortfall of £47.6 million over the next five years

Over 109 pages of detailed proposals went before the Environment and Sustainability Policy Development and Scrutiny Panel this week. The responses from the public ran to 1,300 pages of full comment.

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