Frontrunner for LGA chair sets out stall
Margaret Eaton, the frontrunner in the race to become the Local Government Association’s new chair, will pick her battles with ministers, but has pledged to be ‘aggressively forthright’ if necessary.
Salmond pushes on with local income tax
Opposition parties have condemned the Scottish Government’s plans to replace the council tax with a local income tax.
Bridging the divide, by Mike Baker
Will the new diplomas keep more young people at school and improve general skills levels or will their jack-of-all-trades nature prove unpopular with students, schools and employers?
