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A South Lanarkshire community council is looking for new dedicated members to join.

Works to transform the area around Alexandria’s Smollett Fountain look set to be signed off by councillors on Wednesday.

Get the stories that interest you straight to your inbox every day with our personalised newsletterCouncil bosses are to spend government cash covering up empty shop windows in towns and giving business owners £3,000 grants to tidy up their premises.Plants sprouting from buildings will also be weeded out.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.Crieff has secured a windfall of £365,000 which will be used to improve two of the town's eyesores.Members of Perth and Kinross Council’s strategic policy and resources committee met on Wednesday to discuss the re-allocation of some of the region’s portion of the Scottish Government Town Centre Fund (TCF).Initiated in 2018, an original stipulation of the TCF funding was that it should be spent by September this year.But, despite being granted an extension, delays in agreeing and progressing a town centre project in Pitlochry have meant money previously earmarked for Highland Perthshire has been redirected to more timeous ideas elsewhere.The total sum