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Holyhead 3G pitch A flurry of Welsh Government grants saw Anglesey Council finish the financial year with a significant surplus, prompting calls for the cash to be spent on new infrastructure projects. Having ended 2020/21 with an underspend of £4.197m, it was acknowledged that the authority’s financial situation is now in a better position than earlier predicted. Cllr Robin Williams, the portfolio holder for finance, said it was mainly down to unexpected and ‘late in the day’ Welsh Government grants and a phenomenon shared across many local authorities. The authority’s 151 officer, Marc Jones, told Monday’s Corporate Scrutiny Committee meeting, “We’ve underspent by just over £4m during the year which means our balances have now risen to £11.6m which is a very healthy situation.
Coronavirus illustrative picture. Lessons learned from the response to last month’s Holyhead outbreak will be used to help control any similar spikes in other Welsh communities. A flurry in cases in the port town last month prompted fears of a local lockdown as authorities implemented a raft of measures to ramp up testing and stifle the further spread of Covid-19. Community measures led by Anglesey Council in March included over 6,000 PCR tests being delivered door to door as well as another 3,600 rapid testing kits for secondary school pupils and their support bubbles. 800 also attended a specially set up mobile testing unit in the town as well as another 290 being tested at a separate centre for those not showing any Covid-19 symptoms.
Hanson School BRADFORD’S political leaders have been urged to “dig their heels in” to help reduce a Bradford school’s £5.1 million deficit. The issue of Hanson School’s spiralling deficit was raised at a meeting of Bradford Council’s Executive yesterday morning. A report into the Council’s finances revealed that the Swain House school, which at over 1,600 pupils is one of Bradford’s biggest, had seen its deficit rise from £4.3m to £5.1m in the past year. It comes as the school approaches the 10th anniversary of being given an academy order by the Government - forcing Bradford Council to hand over control of the school to a private academy chain.