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Parliament uses Enron-style accounting

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

Holyrood.com is reporting that Green MSP Mark Ballard has criticised Finance Minister Tom McCabe after McCabe revealed a previously unknown holding account held with the Treasury.
Ballard said that McCabe’s revelation made a mockery of the entire budget process, especially given that the Executive and previous Finance Minister Andy Kerr had given commitments to identify […]

Former health boss in Lords cash row

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

The former head of Lothian Health Board Margaret Ford, who chaired the board for three years up until 2000, appears on a leaked list of 28 new working peers due to be announced next month which has sparked a cash-for-peerages row.
Seemingly most of the people on the list are the millionaires who bankrolled both […]

What Culture?

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

What happened to the speech that Jack McConnell made on St. Andrew’s Day in 2003. Our hapless first minster in his speech promised to put culture at the heart of Scottish life.
Meanwhile the Scottish Arts Council, now very curiously run by the ex-Bishop of Edinburgh, the Right Reverend Richard Holloway seems to be living […]

An ‘absolute nightmare’

By The Basa ⋅ November 8, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

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

By The Basa ⋅ November 8, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

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

By The Basa ⋅ November 7, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

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, […]

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