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Row Over Crime Fighting Budget

CALLS have been made for a Tory councillor to resign after he allowed almost £450,000 to be slashed from Dumfries and Galloway's crime-fighting budget.

Extra tuition for young drivers, working with youngsters to cut anti-social behaviour and trying to reduce drugs and alcohol abuse are all now expected to be chopped.

Tory councillors backed a move to take the money from the Community Safety Partnership budget and return it to that of the full council.

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