ANTI-CUTS campaigners are calling on MSPs, council leaders and councillors to invest in public services and communities in the Scottish Budget this week.

People’s Assembly Scotland has published its own spending manifesto that takes a stand against austerity’s affects on health and social care, education and public-sector workers’ wages.

The group points out that many MSPs and councillors were elected on anti-austerity manifestos, saying: “Words without the actions to back them up is nothing but posturing and political opportunism of the worst kind.”