AWARE that many residents are struggling financially, Whitehill Town Council voted last Monday to keep its council-tax precept for 2013-2014 "as low as it can".

As a result, the authority has increased council tax by 1.9 per cent.

But finance committee chairman Paul Wigan told members: "It would have been even lower if the council hadn't had to recoup the cost of the poll (on the eco town) the Bordon Area Action Group called in June."

For full story, see this week's Bordon Herald.