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Archive for 2006
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Council must be worried about bullied worker’s £800,000 win
Posted on August 2, 2006 | No CommentsWith the news coming in that a bank worker in London won £800,000 damages for four year bullying campaign by bank staff (http://www.scotsman.com/?id=1118332006) the council legal department must be worried... -
Dick Dastardly has another hissy fit
Posted on July 31, 2006 | No CommentsTrevor “(little) Dick Dastardly” Davies yet again uses the letters page of the Evening News to have another huge hissy fit without reading the article correctly or even addressing it’s... -
MSPs, Please speak out publicly
Posted on July 30, 2006 | No Comments[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/ogiSMfjOrk0" height="350" width="425" /] The MSPs who are members of the Executive must speak out publicly about the use of Prestwick for transporting munitions from the US to Israel.... -
Shami Dodger Khan in further outrage
Posted on July 28, 2006 | No CommentsWord is coming in to EdSucks Towers about a further, rather sinister development in the Shami ‘Dodger’ Khan Saga. Hard on the heels of his public Evening News ‘Slamming’ by... -
Children & Families Officials complain to the press – whoops!
Posted on July 28, 2006 | No CommentsNews into EdinburghSucks.com is that the council officials are asking for an apology (not from EdSucks) about the figures that the press have been using in the recent story we... -
Shami Dodger’s position now untenable
Posted on July 28, 2006 | No CommentsTeeth Milligan the former Lord Provost and user of “blue light taxis” for his trips to football matches in Glasgow has hammered what should be the final nail in in... -
Children & Families rises the same as Ministerial ones
Posted on July 27, 2006 | No CommentsIt was interesting to see The Scotsman, The Evening News, Radio Forth and Talk107 (sometimes called CouncilFM) all covering the story we broke about the massive pay rises in the... -
Shami Khan, or is that Shami Dodger, splits Pakastani community
Posted on July 25, 2006 | No CommentsWith a hat-tip to ‘Filled Rolls’ for the new name, Shami Dodger should immediately dig deep into his pockets and offer to pay for the independent inquiry that will examine... -
EdinburghSucks are losers!
Posted on July 25, 2006 | No CommentsAt the glittering New Statesman New Media Awards last night in London, EdinburghSucks.com proved what many of our readership already thought, we’re losers. As finalists in the awards, we failed... -
Huge call for Shami (KhaNolan) Khan’s resignation
Posted on July 23, 2006 | No CommentsThe council’s only Asian councillor who has himself been accused of racism at an East Edinburgh Local Development Committee meeting has once again used the race card after his son... -
Make an FOIA request and you are a paedophile
Posted on July 21, 2006 | 1 CommentIt seems down Craigmillar way that if you dare to ask a financially dodgy and much complained against local charitable outlet for more information under the Freedom of Information Act... -
Children & Families Officials see salary soar up to 65%
Posted on July 21, 2006 | No CommentsInformation leaked to EdinburghSucks.com shows just how good it is to be one of the loved ones in the Chidren & Families Department. When last year their was a re-organisation of Education... -
Why was OpenAllHoors.com blamed on the whistleblower?
Posted on July 20, 2006 | 1 CommentSeemingly OpenAllHoors.com, a website by members of the Comunity Education Department taking a humourous view of the happenings in the department, was blamed on the whistleblower or Donald Reekie. In... -
New Labour’s NHS – them and us
Posted on July 20, 2006 | No CommentsRecently in Edinburgh, the Chancellor Gordon Brown had his latest baby James Fraser. Congratulations Just to show how much faith he puts in the NHS, once again Gordon Brown had... -
None of “The Basas” have had a heart attack
Posted on July 19, 2006 | No CommentsThe rumours flying around the city that “The Basa” has suffered a heart attack are just that, rumours, without any truth to them at all. We do of course realise... -
Pete McDougall blowing the story to TES
Posted on July 18, 2006 | No CommentsNews into edinburghsucks.com is that one of Rosendale’s fraudsters, the jokingly called “Digital Champion”, Pete McDougall is in talks with Times Education Supplement to spill the beans on the whole Cityconnect... -
Despot heirarchy in Children & Families ruins education
Posted on July 18, 2006 | No CommentsJust how wrong can the Children & Families department get the education of our city wrong. Today we find from the Scotsman that Edinburgh have moved down in the list... -
Rosendale contributed to Craigmillar Childcare Services Fiasco
Posted on July 17, 2006 | 1 CommentFor the third time in two years, Craigmillar Childcare Services who have received almost one million pounds in public funding is ready to go bust. The latest revelations come on... -
Unusually, THANK YOU councillors
Posted on July 14, 2006 | No CommentsThe shredding of democracy in Craigmillar has seemingly now been stopped and the unconstitutional meeting for the first community council meeting that was held on Tuesday which saw Nolan’s cabal... -
Council have gotten off their ars*s – Nolan is OUT!
Posted on July 13, 2006 | No CommentsIt seems that the city’s councillors have finally pulled their finger out in the matter of the Craigmillar Community Council Election. Regular readers will remember our post a couple of...