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Last minute Westminster intervention will cut council tax bills by an average of £2.15 a week.

For every queer person, coming out is a process. There is no one-and-done conversation that renders a queer person fully formed or comfortable, no singular reveal that instantly erases the internalized trauma that follows coming to terms with their identity.

Frank Anderson, West Lothian’s longest serving councillor, has accused the SNP of deselecting him for being “too old.”

Council rents will rise three per cent to an average of £80.70 for the next year as West Lothian Council set its budget to come into force in April.

The Craigshill-based charity Spark will be honoured by West Lothian Council with a civic reception after scooping a diversity award.

Sign up to the weekly West Lothian Courier newsletter for the latest West Lothian news and sport.A councillor has voiced concerns that West Lothian Council is in danger of becoming a “cash cow” for the crisis-hit Xcite leisure centres.Opposition SNP councillor, Frank Anderson, called for West Lothian Leisure to be “taken back in-house” after council officers said that a further £500,000 would need to be pumped into the arms-length operator of the county’s leisure centres.Councillor Anderson said: “If we give West Lothian Leisure half a million pounds, they are still going to be half a million short.

However, SNP opposition members branded the Labour plea as “hypocrisy”, claiming Labour had already voted against a review of Third Sector funding and refused to spend reserves to help the community.Depute SNP group leader, Councillor Frank Anderson, branded Labour’s approach as an: “Oliver Twist financial strategy of  ‘Can we have some more’.”Councillor Anderson said: “Perhaps if they were serious, instead of playing politics, they would use their £2million reserves, or the ability they have to convert capital receipts to revenue funding and distribute that to West Lothian organisations.“This council has the ability to assist groups but Labour councillors are not prepared to use them.“They are not looking at this as a ‘rainy day’, instead