An ‘absolute nightmare’

The Kwik-Fit founder, Sir Tom Farmer who sold his company to Ford for what is rumoured to be close to £1 billion today accused the council of creating an “absolute nightmare” for drivers in the city centre as pressure grows for a radical rethink of the Capital’s roads shake-up and joined the mass of […]

1000 readers battle for council U-turn

Help reverse city’s motoring mayhem
Nearly 1000 readers have contacted the Evening News to lodge their support in just three days following the launch of our Get It Sorted campaign.
Some said the changes involved in the council’s Central Edinburgh Traffic Management (CETM) scheme made driving so frustrating they were now avoiding the city centre whenever […]

Elderly care ’spectacular’ failure

COSLA are again trying to keep the Scottish people in the dark. Although taxpayers money paid for by finance chiefs at the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities to Cosla had refused to publish it, having decided it wanted to deal in private with Finance Minister Tom McCabe . Luckily for us, […]

Tories civil war

It seems like the Conservative party in Scotland is in the middle of a meltdown and it looks like Brian Monteith will be exiting the party quite soon - probably with a swift kick up the bahookie.
Party managers revealed there will be no let-up in their investigation into the downfall of McLetchie, whose friends have […]

Urgent Changes - and you are paying!

Our council leaders, when their backs are against the wall now announce further ‘urgent’ changes to the city centre nightmare that residents now face every day.
We don’t want changes - we want the £3.2 million central Edinburgh traffic management scheme scrapped and we want the heads of the people who proposed […]

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Help reverse city’s motoring mayhem
After thinking we could never be shocked, the kleptocrats at the council have proved us wrong. Our mailbox proves that the city is up in arms and really believes that this is their punishment for voting against the congestion charge.

Since the new city center traffic management system has been implemented, […]