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SHETLAND has been particularly severely hit by cuts to council spending – losing more than three times the national average in the past years – and is badly in need of greater public investment.
That is the message of Labour’s candidate for next month’s Scottish Parliament election, Martin Kerr, who is drawing attention to figures showing the isles lost £355 per person in local authority funding between 2013 and 2021 compared to a national real terms average of £95 per person.
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Only the Western Isles, at £522, fared worse while Orkney lost out on £59 per head according to the Scottish Parliament’s information centre: “When you look at that league table of cuts Shetland is almost right at the top,” Kerr tells
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A LOCAL councillor has been censured by the Standards Commission for Scotland after admitting a breach of the councillorsâ code of conduct for failing to keep his register of interests up to date.
Though severely criticised for his conduct, councillor Ryan Thomson was not suspended and can continue to represent the North Isles and act in the senior roles as chairman of the transport and environment committee as well as ZetTrans.
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During a short virtual hearing streamed in the commissionâs YouTube channel on Thursday morning, the breaches were described as âtechnicalâ and not premeditated.