One Scottish council spent over £34,000 on the King's Coronation
The historic Coronation of King Charles III took place over the weekend as hundreds of get togethers marked the occasion hosted up and down the UK.
However, according to independent media platform Open Democracy, many of Scotland's councils did not give out any grants or spend money for the King's Coronation celebrations. The Coronation spend of Scottish councils Below are the councils that have confirmed to the Record that they either ran events or allocated money to local groups to celebrate the King's coronation:
Both Lanarkshire and the Scottish Borders councils had no official events, but handed out grants to local groups to set up their own celebrations within their communities. North Lanarkshire council confirmed to the Record that the remainder of the £50,000 allocation would go back into general funds.
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