Money set aside for restoring nature is to be diverted into funding wage settlements in Scotland’s local authorities. Ministers have told councils to divert current allocations from the Nature Restoration Fund (NRF) to settle pay deals.  The fund is worth £29.2m spread across councils and the Scottish government’s nature agency, NatureScot.  The NRF is used...

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