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Council under fire again on transport

By The Basa ⋅ June 25, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

The council’s transport department are under fire again in the letter’s page of the Evening News.
Council beggars belief
I TOOK a trip down North Bridge to Princes Street this week and the council have stuck a sign in the middle lane at the junction of North Bridge and Princes Street regarding the routes that the […]

EdinburghSucks!com Store Cock-up

By The Basa ⋅ June 25, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

A good point was raised in a letter to the Evening News which is linked below.
The anonymous writer said:
Therefore, those who see the various items of clothing will come to the obvious conclusion that the wearer hates everything to do with Edinburgh. What a great marketing ploy and message to give to the world from […]

Councils failing children

By The Basa ⋅ June 25, 2005 ⋅ One comment

Even our dodgy First Minister, Jack McConnell is up in arms at council social work departments. He was addressing the centenary conference of children’s charity Barnardo’s Scotland in Edinburgh and McConnell said council leaders now had to focus their attention on meeting the needs of the 12,000 children in local authority care.
He said: “I […]

Rubbish piling up

By The Basa ⋅ June 25, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Still catching up - The beautiful city of Edinburgh is fast becoming a huge rubbish dump as council’s environmental and consumer services department cut some of the trucks used in the refuse collection a few weeks ago which we covered here.
Whilst the binmen say they are doing everything possible and the council saying […]

Reply to Evening News Article

By The Basa ⋅ June 24, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

There were some inaccuracies in the recent article in the Evening News.
The EdinburghSucks website is attracting up to 1400 “hits” a day and even has its own merchandising brand.
The site is attracting an average of 1,400 visits a day. When someone tells you that their site attracts a number of hits a day, […]

The knives are out

By The Basa ⋅ June 24, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

A little later than expected but the hate sites have begun to start popping up - I don’t include http://www.go-and-live-somewhere-else-then.co.uk/ as one of the hate sites - I like and participate in that one! On one of them of course has crossed the line when they published the address of where a 79 year-old […]

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