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£780m budget passed

Published on Wednesday 15 February 2012 11:30

COUNCILLORS have voted through North Lanarkshire’s £780 million budget.

Key priorities to emerge included tackling youth unemployment, and improving front-line services.

Other announcements which had been previously flagged up and were formally approved included scrapping parking charges at council-owned car parks, and building 1000 council houses by 2020.

Jim McCabe, leader of the Labour-run authority, accused the Scottish Government of holding a gun to the council’s head by threatening penalties if certain conditions such as the frozen council tax, were not met.

For our special report on where your money’s being spent, see your News and Chronicle - out now.

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