WEYMOUTH and Portland Borough Council is to freeze its share of the council tax for the second year in a row.

Councillors approved the 2012-13 budget, including council tax levels, at a full council meeting last night.

Members heard the authority faces a reduction in its government grant for 2012/13 of £620,200, or 14.4 per cent.

But the council has been able to 'off-set' cuts to funding by sharing a workforce with West Dorset District Council.

The borough council’s council tax for a Band D property in Weymouth and Portland will remain at £267.56.

The final bill for council tax payers in Dorset is still to be decided.