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One in eight council jobs faces axe in doomsday forecast

More than 30,000 council jobs will be lost across Scotland over the next four years, according to a new nightmare scenario facing local authorities.

The possible scale of losses -- equivalent to approximately one in eight of the current workforce -- has emerged in the light of savings proposed by one of Scotland’s best-performing local authorities.