CommonSpace journalist Rhiannon Davies spent 17 days visiting community projects across Scotland, and found a spirit of resilience and ingenuity in trying circumstances

“WE realised no one else is going to do this for us so we’re doing it ourselves.” 

Moray Council’s long list of services to be cut this year is a grim tale of woe – but it could be just the start of the pain for places like Moray where demographics are changing but local funding isn’t

SNP-RUN Moray Council is facing a financial crisis, and has turned to the answer locals fear most: cuts. Big cuts. 

Council leader Graham Leadbitter has said £7.3 million in savings needs to be found if it’s 2019-20 budget is going to be legally eligible. If it doesn’t make the cuts, the Council claims it will have to declare itself bankrupt. 

Effectively combating climate change is only possible by recognising that we are already in the midst of a global catastrophe

CLIMATE CHANGE, for those who believe that scientists know something about science, traversed from theory to reality before any of us were born. That the Earth was capable of vast climactic shifts was recognised as early as the late 18th century; a hundred years later, the unwitting (or uncaring) role which humanity’s influence played in such environmental upheavals was first posited.

Moray councillor resigns amid dispute with Tory colleagues over severe public sector cuts

SCOTTISH CONSERVATIVE LEADER Ruth Davidson has been called on by Moray’s SNP MSP Richard Lochhead to investigate Moray council group after councillor Walter Wilson resigned from the Conservative Party in protest against the council’s proposed budget and accused former colleagues of having “extreme right-wing views”.