Campaigners who lost a battle to save a community café in a West Lothian elderly care complex have taken their cause to national financial watchdogs.

West Lothian’s Integration Joint Board agreed to close a café in Bathgate’s Rosemount Gardens complex to save £136,000 in staffing costs.

A campaign formed at the start of the year has told Audit Scotland the West Lothian Board members made their decision on information which was “misleading, inaccurate, contradictory and incomplete”.

Audit Scotland reports in a range of ways on the performance and finances of Scotland’s public bodies.

A detailed letter of complaint has been sent to Colin Crosby, the Chair of Audit Scotland.

Copied into the letter are Graham Hope, the Chief Executive of West Lothian Council, Professor Caroline Hiscox, th

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