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By The Basa ⋅ July 6, 2005 ⋅ 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 […]

We made a change

By The Basa ⋅ July 5, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

It has been confirmed that one of the readers letters which we published on June 21st has got someone to get off their butt in the city council - the Deputy Provost no less.
..princess st. gardens, thousands of visitors every week of the year and yet a principle feature the Ross Fountain sits with no […]

Parliamentary Finance Committe Probe

By The Basa ⋅ July 5, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

In today’s Evening News, the finance committee convenor has announced that he is asking for evidence on the most effective way to allocate cash to deprived areas.
The Scottish Parliament’s finance committee is asking for evidence on the most effective ways of allocating cash, the financial barriers to tackling deprivation and how funding can be targeted […]

Donald Anderson Leads… from the back

By The Basa ⋅ July 4, 2005 ⋅ One comment

Today’s Evening News shows the true colours of Teflon Don Anderson our little esteemed council leader - and yellow is shining through way above the others.
Whilst anarchist protesters brought chaos to the city centre today as they clashed with police in a series of violent confrontations and every business in the city centre was advised […]

‘Jobs for the boys’ in the Council - Proof

By The Basa ⋅ July 4, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Yet again, an insider recruitment process to find the head of a major new council department has been exposed as an example of “jobs for the boys”.
Teflon Don Anderson is becoming more and more blatent at getting his gophers into the positions so that he can control them.
The city council has decided to “ring-fence” the […]

Screwed up NHS Quality - take tourism

By The Basa ⋅ July 4, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

How can this be happening? A director of NHS Quality Improvement Scotland, will head the Edinburgh area office of VisitScotland from the end of this month.
One of the greatest complaints in Edinburgh, other than the council, is the NHS, it’s quality and it’s lack of improvement thanks not to the doctors and nurses but […]

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