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CONSERVATIVE councillors are working with independent and Labour representatives to take control of the SNP-led Moray Council, it has emerged. 

A Moray Council officer has apologised to parents for a lack of communication over the location of a pedestrian crossing in Elgin.

Dredging work at Moray harbours is being affected by swell and poor visibility at dumping sites for sediment offshore.

At a full council meeting on Wednesday, Derek Ross said he had been "singled out" as a target for complaint and that amounted to "bullying".

‘I was on tenterhooks’ He said: “Circumstances dictated it was much more sensible for me to stay at home and not attend a large gathering while my son awaits a Covid test result – especially given what’s happening in Moray. “My election agent continually texted me, although there were large gaps between some texts which made me all the more nervous. “I was on tenterhooks, clearly, but I was to keep up to date with the national coverage with swings and trends.” © DC Thomson Rich...

© Jason Hedges/DCT Media Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Moray Council’s £2.4 million dredger has failed to hit its annual target of operational days since launching five years ago. The Selkie was commissioned as Scotland’s only local authority-owned dredger to drive down maintenance bills for harbours. However, ...

Thank you for signing up to our Politics newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross has claimed the pro-unionist parties have to “get their act together” if they are to face the “threat of nationalists trying to game the system”. In an exclusive interview with The Courier editor David Clegg, the Moray MP said unionist parties working together is the “tried and tested model” to stop a second independence referen...

Updated: March 11, 2021, 12:07 pm © Jason Hedges / DCT Media Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Proposals have been unveiled to prepare Moray for this summer’s anticipated influx of staycationers with new facilities. The Conservative group and Moray Alliance Group, which comprises independent councillors Derek Ross and...

Moray Council cuts music tuition by 30% to help inspire young musicians during pandemic © Shutterstock Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Moray Council has cut music instruction fees by 30% for the new school year. Council bosses have agreed to slash the cost of lessons after hearing that many young people had shelved their musical ambitions during the pandemic. Currently Moray’s charges are the second ...

Price freezes for Moray fishing fleet to support industry during Brexit struggles among review of council fees including 30% cut to music tuition cost.