Tag: council

Driver got £13K payout for pothole

Business

Deadline News Journalist - January 6, 2016

A DRIVER whose car hit a pothole received a compensation pay-out of £13,000 from a Scottish council. And a pedestrian who suffered a fracture as...

Delight as council backs down over street’s bra bunting for breast cancer tribute

Scottish News

Deadline News Journalist - October 7, 2015

FRIENDS of a breast cancer patient who decorated the street with bunting made from bras are celebrating after the local council backed down over...

Flower beds face axe under council’s “destructive” cost-cutting plan

Scottish News

Deadline News Journalist - October 7, 2015

FLOWER beds will be axed by a Scots council under a “destructive” plan to save cash. Argyll and Bute is set to turf over rose...

Showbiz agents boycott council over Peter Andre row

Entertainment

Deadline News Journalist - September 17, 2015

FURIOUS showbiz agents have refused to supply a Scots council with celebrities - after the cost of Peter Andre’s Christmas light switch-on was revealed. Agents...

Council spends £9.5K on holidays for troubled kids and carers

Scottish News

Deadline News Journalist - August 28, 2015

A SCOTS council spent nearly £9,500 sending troubled youngsters and their carers on luxury holidays abroad. Shetland Council forked out the “totally inappropriate” sum treating...