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Dundee City Council outlines £320 million spending programme 'to support the local economy'

Dundee City Council is to commit a major investment totalling more than £320 million in new and refurbished facilities in schools, housing, community buildings and roads over the next four years. (...)


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School music tuition faces cuts under £3.5m city council savings plan

Dundee's SNP administration has unveiled a £3.5 million package of savings to freeze the council tax for a sixth successive year. (...)


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Investigation teams praised for efforts to uncover benefit fraud

Investigators have uncovered benefit fraud totalling more than £250,000 in Dundee in six months. (...)


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Scotland's councils report wide variation in pothole payouts

The amount of compensation paid by Dundee City Council to motorists whose vehicles were damaged by potholes fell to a five-year low last year. (...)


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City council considering moving away from Royal Mail for some post

Dundee City Council could stop using Royal Mail as it wants TNT Post, the largest private postal sector operator in the UK, to handle all of its second-class mail from July 1. (...)


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Dundee City Council loses nearly 1000 staff with fears more could go

Nearly 1000 employees quit Dundee City Council during the last year. (...)


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Further Dundee schools uncertain due to 'bare cupboards'

Dundee's education convener has said it was impossible for the council to commit to building more new schools beyond those already programmed because of the difficult financial climate. (...)


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Stormy end to Dundee City Council's budget-setting meeting

Dundee City Council's budget has been set after the SNP administration saw off two bids by opposition groups for the authority to save money by not sending councillors to conferences and not providing them and officials with free sandwich lunches. (...)


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Dundee City Council to freeze council tax despite need to find savings

Dundee is set to freeze council tax for the fifth year in a row, and the city's SNP administration is hailing that likely achievement in the face of funding cuts by Westminster. (...)


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Dundee City Council's provisional budget fails to reveal where cuts will be made

A first glimpse of Dundee City Council's provisional revenue budget report has failed to reveal details of almost £15 million worth of cuts. (...)


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Councillors to haggle over Dundee education budget cuts

Alternatives to controversial cuts planned for Dundee's education budget are to debated at a special meeting in the City Chambers. (...)


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Hundreds of Dundee shoppers back Courier fairer fuel petition

Hundreds of Dundee shoppers added their names to The Courier's petition calling for fairer fuel prices on Saturday. (...)


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Opposition turns on Dundee City Council over cuts to schools

Opposition councillors have rounded on the Dundee City Council SNP administration over cuts to the city's schools. (...)


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No answers to questions on Dundee City Council education budget cuts

Dundee City Council failed to answer a series of questions put to it about proposed £4 million cuts in its education budget. (...)


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City council administration claims reducing cuts to £14.6m is 'minor miracle'

Dundee City Council's SNP administration has claimed success in restricting next year's proposed budget cut to £14.6 million — less than three-quarters of what had originally been feared. (...)


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Interest rate hike will cost Dundee City Council £400,000

Dundee City Council is set to be hit by a £400,000 charge next year, after the UK Government hiked interest rates on public sector loans. (...)


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Law forbids Council Tax band 'tweaking'

Ministers have told Dundee Labour MSP Marlyn Glen that councils cannot raise the level of council tax in higher bands while freezing it in others. (...)


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SNP sticking to council tax freeze pledge

The SNP administration of Dundee City Council is "very confident" of achieving a council tax freeze in Dundee again next year. (...)


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First hint of Dundee City Council compulsory redundancies

The possibility that Dundee City Council may eventually have to consider compulsory redundancies to tackle budget cuts has been tentatively raised by a senior member of the SNP administration. (...)


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Whitfield speeding worries allayed

Initial fears that building a new central street running through Whitfield could cause speeding problems have been allayed. (...)


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