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Massive full-time nursery cuts to come in Edinburgh

By The Basa ⋅ March 6, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

News in today is that the current administration are hiding some news before the election.
Massive cuts are going to happen in full time nursery provision provided by the Council.  There are to be 200 full-time nursery places cut in south and central Edinburgh and we believe it will also be affecting Westerhailles as well.
It is […]

The cooncil need our help

By The Basa ⋅ March 6, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

It seems that the Council’s attempts to get people interested in the electoral process hasn’t been too effective up until now and the first meeting to explain the new system has had to be cancelled because not enough people RSVP’d.
It seems they are now coming to us to help get the message out as the […]

Norman Murray’s thoughts

By The Basa ⋅ March 5, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

“Good riddance to bad rubbish” is the answer Norman Murray, the prospective Labour candidate for Edinburgh East and Musselburgh at the forthcoming May elections, gave to his friend on the bus home to Musselburgh the other night.  Murray is taking the big pay-off from East Lothian Council where he is currently leader to stand for […]

Norman ‘Nae Pals’ Murray hits the £300,000 headlines - “something rotten”

By The Basa ⋅ March 1, 2007 ⋅ One comment

Prospective MSP for Edinburgh East and Musselburgh (and a man who has firmly tied his banner to the Paul Nolan camp in Craigmillar) today hit the headlines for being the leader of East Lothian council who has given his chief executive £300,000 in redundancy pay even although he is supposed to be retiring within the […]

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