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Glasgow leaders U-turn on 'junket' plans after row over cash crisis

- PAUL HUTCHEON 

CASH-STRAPPED Glasgow Council has pulled the plug on a £7000 “junket” to New York after an outcry.

The SNP-led authority, which is making cuts to services and jobs, will no longer be sending a team to Scotland Week. The council, led by Susan Aitken, is facing a £107million financial black hole over three years, which could mean axing 450 teaching posts.

But despite financial pressures, the council planned to send SNP councillor Richard Bell, who helped draw up the cuts, Lord Provost Jacqueline McLaren and two officials to the Big Apple. The cost was estimated to be £1700 per head.