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Welsh Government announces council funding cuts

Welsh councils get £146m less to spend in 2015

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Council funding to be announced by Welsh Government

How much funding the Welsh Government intend to allocate each local authority for 2015-16 is to be announced later by Public Services Minister Leighton Andrews.

Local councils still need to find savings in services like bin collections. Credit: PA.

It's expected that morecCouncils will face further cuts, continuing from last years' drop in funding.

Last year all of Wales' 22 councils had their budgets cut for the 2014-15 financial year.

Some councils fared worse than others, with Ceredigion, Denbighshire and Powys seeing the biggest reduction - 4.6% - to their annual budget.

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