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By The Basa ⋅ July 6, 2005 ⋅  Email this post ⋅  Print this post ⋅ Post a comment

Today the G8 Meeting starts and and the Final Live8 concert takes place at Murrayfield.

It is very hard for me not to be in the city at this amazing time. The huge march last weekend with about 225,000 people taking to the streets made me feel extremely proud of the citizens who joined the march and welcomed the march to the city.

As I am currently in New York where news of the march was extremely flimsy and coverage of the G8 concerts almost non-existent on live TV, I spent most of the weekend watching the Canadian Newsworld International to keep up with the news.

Unfortunately here in New York, most of the publicity on the news channels about Edinburgh was yesterday afternoon and evening when they covered the atrocities caused by the anarchists. It was however, very good to see in the pictures that the police handled the disturbances with an awful lot more decorum than we have seen at previous G7 & G8 conferences. A tribute the the constabulary.

Although I don’t have the confidence of Bob Geldof, Midge Ure or Bono that President Bush will make any concessions at the meeting on climate change or giving more money to Africa I have never been more proud of the city I call home.

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