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Representatives from a Moray community are set to mark their becoming part of a region-wide campaign to save local libraries scheduled for closure in a highly unusual fashion. Regular users of the library in Hopeman are to hold a fancy dress ‘Flash Mob’ at the local library on Thursday at 3.20pm. The Hopeman library is … Read more
Parents at a Moray primary school are speaking of their increasing concern over safety of pupils by increased number of vehicles parked and driving past the building. The chairman of the Parent Council at New Elgin Primary School has written to Moray Council’s head of direct services highlighting their concerns that safety issues remain despite … Read more
Moray’s MSP has called on the local authority to listen to the people by reducing their plans for a western link road in Elgin and retaining all seven local libraries they are planning to close. Richard Lochhead attended a meeting with representatives of those communities that will be affected by the library closures, learning of … Read more
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