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1 in 9 ‘living in poverty’

By The Basa ⋅ September 29, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

A new study looking in to depravation in Scotland which was published yesterday found that more than 9,000 of the city’s residents are classed as living in Scotland’s most deprived areas.
The study found that in Edinburgh, 52,821 people were classed as income deprived - 11 per cent of the city’s total population.
And 24 areas […]

Admin Note

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

Unfortunately, EdinburghSucks!com has been quiet for the past couple of weeks because of pressure of paying work. We will now catch up with the stories that we have missed over the past couple of weeks.
The Basa.

Tel - The new council joint venture

By The Basa ⋅ September 14, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

With Enron still fresh in everyone’s mind the council is starting up a new joint venture. The new body - Transport Edinburgh Limited (Tel) - made up of Lothian Buses (the city council) , TIE (the city council) and the city council has been set up to oversee the “integration” of trams and […]

City chief speaks with forked tongue

By The Basa ⋅ September 14, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Phil Attridge, the council’s licensing leader who is quite happy to give jailbird theives licences to run ‘trendy’ restaurants in Leith seems to choke over the fact that a private developer doesn’t put “heavy prostitute traffic included” in their brochures to sell their houses.
And although most would not realistically expect the developer to make a […]

“Teeth” flys the flag - criminals fly in

By The Basa ⋅ September 12, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

A bit of a shock comes in today from SNP MSP Alex Neil who I had previously held in quite high regard.
The Capital’s longest-serving First Citizen is the kind of “character” needed to raise Scotland’s profile and win back visitors, said the SNP’s Alex Neil, convener of the Scottish Parliament’s enterprise and culture […]

Someone doesn’t like us

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

Unfortunately EdinburghSucks!com went down for a while this weekend - very late Saturday night and early Sunday when all our people were attending the SEO Roadshow in the George Hotel in Edinburgh.
It seems as though someone tried to hack us but thanks to the security and procedures we had in place it was fairly […]

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