3.5% cut to councils' funding
Wales' 22 councils have found how much money they will receive from the Welsh Government for 2013-14. It says the overall reduction in their allocation is £150m - that's 3.5 per cent - compared this year.
Councils to make savings from bins, roads, leisure
Since the Welsh Government's Draft Budget was published last week, with a 5.81 per cent real terms cut in the money going to local authorities, unions and several councils have already warned of the 'thousands' of jobs which they could be forced to axe.
The leader of Carmarthenshire Council warned "many hundreds of jobs" will have to be lost, and a Cardiff Council cabinet member predicted that half of the authority's workforce would not still be employed by 2017.
Councils will find out this afternoon how much they have been allocated in the Local Government Settlement - and must then work out how they can balance their books.
With schools and social services protected, councils are likely to have to make cuts to their services in things like leisure facilities, libraries, and work on roads.
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