As a general rule, councils are hoping to achieve these cuts through natural turnover, early retirement and voluntary redundancies.

BBC: D-day for Scottish council budgets

As a general rule, councils get about 80p of every pound they spend from the Scottish government, while most of the rest comes from the council tax.

BBC: D-day for Scottish council budgets

The Solicitor General, Eilish Angiolini, met with the Commission for Racial Equality and Scotland's Race Equality Councils on March 6 and assured them of our determination to deal with racist crime.

BBC: McConnell statement in full