A revised budget is expected to be agreed by Devon county councillors today - with safeguards for school crossing patrols, welfare services and some threatened bus routes.
The council still has to make savings of 46 million pounds over the next financial year.
And a rise of just under two per cent in council tax is being proposed to prevent even deeper cuts.
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