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East Lothian’s financial challenges at ‘unprecedented level’ as funding fails to match population growth

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The collective scale of financial risks and challenges at East Lothian is “at an unprecedented level”, council leader Norman Hampshire has said. The council

‘Half-baked’ plans to overhaul Scottish local government will lead to significant financial costs that have not been thought through and risk repeating the flawed process of local government reorganisation (LGR) in England, ministers have been warned.

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