Authorities will have the option of cutting benefit paid, or trying to fill the funding gap by scrapping the 50% discounts for second homes and empty properties - or cutting spending on services.

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Instead, he started cutting off the first of 600 underperforming properties.

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Dr Margherita Cantornas, who led the study at Penn State University in the US, said that the anti-inflammatory properties of vitamin D could allow the dosage of steroids to be reduced, cutting the side effects.

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