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SHETLAND has been particularly severely hit by cuts to council spending – losing more than three times the national average in the past years – and is badly in need of greater public investment.
That is the message of Labour’s candidate for next month’s Scottish Parliament election, Martin Kerr, who is drawing attention to figures showing the isles lost £355 per person in local authority funding between 2013 and 2021 compared to a national real terms average of £95 per person.
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Only the Western Isles, at £522, fared worse while Orkney lost out on £59 per head according to the Scottish Parliament’s information centre: “When you look at that league table of cuts Shetland is almost right at the top,” Kerr tells