Huge cuts to Ealing Council’s budget are worse than initially indicated, which will bring jobs and frontline services under threat. The authority must save an extra two per cent after receiving its grant allocation from central funds, making a total of £66 million to be cut over three years. The council said that a list of community and volunteer groups which will be affected will be sent to the council cabinet in the spring. Its leader Julian Bell said: “It’s very disheartening when we have to make that level of cuts.”
