Argyll and Bute Council must play Scrooge to communities which cannot afford their Christmas lights from next year, elected members have warned.
Pleas for the authority to keep some money aside after its festive funding ends this year fell on deaf ears at a meeting of the council’s environment, development and infrastructure committee last week.
The council decided in 2016 that it would withdraw all funding for festive lights after the end of 2018, but Councillor Gordon Blair requested last week that some money be kept aside.