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Aberdeen council has voted to ask the UK Government for direct funding. ABERDEEN council has voted to write to the UK Government to ask for direct funding, bypassing Holyrood and the devolution settlement. The motion passed in a council meeting last night by 22 votes to 19. The vote ruled that chief executive Angela Scott should write to Scottish Secretary Alister Jack for grant funding. Scott will also approach the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (Cosla) to stress that Aberdeen council would prefer any granted money to bypass Edinburgh. Aberdeen’s council is co-led by the Conservative Douglas Lumsden and former Labour councillor Jenny Laing. Labour suspended nine of the city’s councillors from the party after they formed a coalition with the Tories, meaning Laing now sits as an independent.