Concerns have been raised over whether a new working group on traveller issues in West Lothian will be able achieve anything substantial.

The council faced huge clear up bills after a series of unauthorised traveller encampments around West Lothian this summer.

The new working group aims to bring together police and prosecution service and council services to look at ways of using existing legislation more effectively as well considering introducing dedicated sites for travellers.

Janet Campbell, the leader of West Lothian’s opposition SNP group, pointed out that the chair and vice chair appointed this week had both voted against the SNP proposal to set up the working group in the first place.

She also doubted that a January reporting date outlined in the papers drawn up by the counc

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