http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/10/16/waverley-market-lease-1p-a-year-for-206-years/ An account of how the politicians and officials are screwing our city. Fri, 20 Jan 2012 03:39:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/10/16/waverley-market-lease-1p-a-year-for-206-years/comment-page-1/#comment-2175 » Edinburgh’s council say this was a £20 million mistake - Edinburgh Sucks! Mon, 13 Nov 2006 18:18:22 +0000 http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/10/16/waverley-market-lease-1p-a-year-for-206-years/#comment-2175 [...] The Mail on Sunday yesterday picked up on the story we did back on October 16th about how the council gave away the lease of the Waverley Market for 1p a year for 206 years when the land actually was common good land and belonged to the citizens of Edinburgh for eternity.  The hero who carried out the detective work to prove that the council were lying is Andy Wightman who is currently sitting in Addis Ababa with his broken Macintosh sitting in Kenya being repaired. [...] [...] The Mail on Sunday yesterday picked up on the story we did back on October 16th about how the council gave away the lease of the Waverley Market for 1p a year for 206 years when the land actually was common good land and belonged to the citizens of Edinburgh for eternity.  The hero who carried out the detective work to prove that the council were lying is Andy Wightman who is currently sitting in Addis Ababa with his broken Macintosh sitting in Kenya being repaired. [...]

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