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Grindstone Charles H. Howarth passed away peacefully, at the age of 95, Monday, December 4, 2023. Born in Grindstone November 28, 1928, Charles was a beloved husband, father, grandfather, and great- grandfather, as well as a respected US Steel retiree and a proud U.S. Army veteran of the Korean War Era. Charles’s life was marked […]
Auditors are to take a fresh look at council finances after it emerged previous gloomy assessments failed to fully consider investment income.
SHETLAND Islands Council reaching financial sustainability is “difficult, but not impossible”. That is the view of the local authority’s finance manager Paul Fraser, who said his job is to seek to narrow the gap and to “bring us as close to sustainability as we can”....
SHETLAND Islands Council’s new external auditor is keen to take what it says will be a “fresh look” at the local authority’s reserves. Audit Scotland’s Brian Howarth said at a meeting on Monday that he wants to examine elements like the size of reserves, the rate of...
New auditors are to take a “fresh look” at the thorny issues of council reserves and financial sustainability.