Yes, I stayed there, just off the West Highland Way, last spring. It’s a pleasant, scenic area to the south of Loch Lomond and looked fairly prosperous to me. Yet within easy driving distance of Glas… (View Post)

That aspect of the graph isn't a surprise, given that the cost pressures local councils have to meet - principally from adult and child social services - rise inexorably, and other sources of fu… (View Post)

Update: 0916, and the job is reported as done. :) Hopefully I'll be seeing that dog owner again soon... (View Post)

A lucky escape? (View Post)

Underneath is the problem that local government has no constitutional basis and hence no security. In most other democracies, the fundamentals of its local governance are set out in its constitution.… (View Post)