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Brian Wilson: How local government lost its way - and why it matters to us all

Brian Wilson: How local government lost its way - and why it matters to us all

As 50th anniversaries go, today is quite a big one in the annals of how Scotland is governed. At the stroke of midnight on May 16th 1975, it was a case of out with the old and in with the new and local government was never the same again

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