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Fry just a litte bit more….

By The Basa ⋅ August 16, 2005 ⋅ One comment

With mobile phone masts going up all the time, it seems that T-Mobile is getting sloppy in the positioning of them and the people at the council who are supposed to be looking after our interests are simply not.
When the more than 130 complaints against siting the mast less that 200 meters from the […]

Write to the Board of Directors

By The Basa ⋅ August 15, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Craigmillar’s community organisations have once again taken on a life of there own. EdinburghSucks covered their Haywired project back in mid-June and it has raised it’s head again.
Once the toast of the world when Craigmillar Festival Society was run by 4 mothers who did everything they could for their community, the ladies left […]

Lismore Parents Action Group

By The Basa ⋅ August 11, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

The ladies who run Lismore Parents Action Group have been trying to get a miniscule fraction of the millions of pounds that go into Craigmillar each year to be doled out by disgraced and discredited former councillor Paul Nolan and his Craigmillar Cabal.
The ladies who shot to fame last year when they took on the […]

EdinburghSucks.com Wrong - Shock, Horror!

By The Basa ⋅ August 10, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

UPDATED: It seems EdinburghSucks!com sometimes doesn’t get it quite correct and we notice that our latest post about Craigmillar Councillor Jackie O’Donnell did not include all the facts.
Although the documents we have are indeed correct, it seems as though they only cover the land deal in the transaction. We have been reliably […]

Council ownership distorts market

By The Basa ⋅ August 9, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

An interesting letter to the Evening News:
SPEAKING about the suspension of Greenways during the Lothian Buses strike D Humphries says, “No wonder First couldn’t compete with them in the bus wars” (Letters, August 5).
Who can doubt that Edinburgh City Council’s ownership of Lothian Buses distorts the market? Or that it will be their own company […]

The £431m Tree Cemetry

By The Basa ⋅ August 9, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Just to rub more salt into our wounds, experts are now saying that around one third of the newly planted trees around the £441m Holyrood building are dead or dying.
The grim state of the trees, which cost £300 each, has been blamed on them being planted around the Scottish Parliament at too advanced an age […]

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