insideMoray Moray Council’s Chief Executive is being encouraged to assign an elected member or official to act as an ‘autism champion’ leading work on its local autism strategy. The call, from Donside MSP Mark McDonald, comes a year after the Scottish Government launched a national strategy that saw £13.4million allocated to building improvements and enabling access … Read more
Campaigners say that they will do everything possible to halt Moray Council’s plans to close seven local libraries at the end of November. It emerged on Friday that the local authority has commenced procedures to close libraries in Portknockie, Cullen, Burghead, Hopeman, Rothes, Dufftown and Findochty. Staff have been informed of the closure date while … Read more
People in Moray have responded to a call to serve on community councils with the local authority revealing today that four will go to the polls. Strong appeals for nominations had been issued for the community representative bodies in the hope that would result in elections taking place, with only one such vote having been … Read more
Low-Carbon lifestyle group Transition Town Forres have been successful in obtaining a £10,000 lottery award to be used to equip their kitchen at the Healthy Living Centre in Forres. The voluntary group, one of over a thousand local initiatives formed worldwide in recent years as a response to the global challenges of climate change, say … Read more
Parkland recreational facilities throughout Moray are to be hit with Councillors agreeing cuts that will save over half a million pounds each year. Proposals, including the closure of the Elgin Nursery and a reduction of the countryside ranger service, were agreed at a full meeting of Moray Council on Wednesday. Total savings from the cuts … Read more
Campaign groups dissatisfied at the decisions of Moray Council are set to join forces in a ‘March for Moray’ through the centre of Elgin. Organisers hope that thousands will turn out and show their support against the planned closure of seven libraries in the region as part of £30million cost-saving measures by the Council – … Read more