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	<title>Edinburgh Sucks! &#187; City Council</title>
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		<title>Two depressing things witnessed &#8211; Shame on the City&#8217;s Council!</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2009/05/11/two-depressing-things-witnessed-shame-on-the-citys-council/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2009/05/11/two-depressing-things-witnessed-shame-on-the-citys-council/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 17:19:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[City Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Councillors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jenny Dawe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lord Provost]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Phil Wheeler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Planning Dept.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transport Dept]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? Two depressing things witnessed by me today as a result of poorly planned and executed tramworks fiasco / traffic diversions:
Sad thing #1) Sight-impaired lady with white stick patiently standing at Pedestrian Crossing at Queensferry Street opposite Ryan&#8217;s Bar. (The same crossing that, even when the Green Man is on, has no traffic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TIE, Waterfront Edinburgh and Edinburgh Building Services to be one company.</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2009/05/11/tie-waterfront-edinburgh-and-edinburgh-building-services-to-be-all-one-company/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2009/05/11/tie-waterfront-edinburgh-and-edinburgh-building-services-to-be-all-one-company/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 12:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[City Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EDI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Waterfront]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? Huge moves are afoot in the Council with it&#8217;s arms length (we own it, they take the blame) companies.  The news we have is that TIE, Waterfront and EBS will all be amalgamated into one company.
We are told that Waterfront&#8217;s Chief Executive, Colin Hunter, was summoned to the City Chambers last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Well placed, Aye Right Tom.</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2009/05/01/well-placed-aye-right-tom/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2009/05/01/well-placed-aye-right-tom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 10:42:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[City Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tom Aitchison]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? The Evening Chip Paper will carry a story tonight about city council chief executive Tom Aitchison putting his neck on the line at the full council meeting yesterday saying that:
&#8220;Without being complacent about this, we are quite far advanced in terms of our planning and preparations.
&#8220;I can give you the reassurance that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Download the BT Prices here</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2008/10/03/download-the-bt-prices-here/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2008/10/03/download-the-bt-prices-here/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:45:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Children & Families]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[City Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corporate Services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education Dept.]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<strong>Tonight's story in the Evening News:</strong> After we passed the BT prices to the Evening News (where they again <strong>failed</strong> to credit us for -<em> last time those bastards are getting anything - until the next time</em>) we were kind of shocked that they didn't allow all you citizens to download the documents.  Don't fret.  The documents will be available here over the weekend.  They paint a said picture of the council being supplied free KY jelly by BT.]]></description>
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		<title>Sheraton&#8217;s One Spa cheaper than Edinburgh Leisure</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2008/04/11/sheratons-one-spa-cheaper-than-edinburgh-leisure/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2008/04/11/sheratons-one-spa-cheaper-than-edinburgh-leisure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:14:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[City Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edinburgh Leisure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jenny Dawe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Bridgman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Cardownie]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Proof today emerged today that the world famous, ultra-luxurious and chic One Spa at the city's Sheraton Hotel is cheaper than using Porty Swimming Pool to keep fit if you have children.  It also brings into huge disrepute the council and their appointed overseers of council funds at Edinburgh Liesure which is being run as a charity and pays no VAT.
]]></description>
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		<title>The Â£250,000 publicly funded party to scrap crÃ¨che provision</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2008/03/13/the-250000-publicly-funded-party-to-scrap-creche-provision/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2008/03/13/the-250000-publicly-funded-party-to-scrap-creche-provision/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:51:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[City Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edinburgh Leisure]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? 
Edinburgh Leisure will tell any lies they can to keep their party.

Last week Edinburgh Sucks telephoned Edinburgh Leisure to ask how much they were spending on their all-expenses paid party to celebrate 10 years of success.  We were told that we would get the information but unfortunately as we expected, to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>City&#8217;s crÃ¨che madness</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2008/03/06/citys-creche-madness/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2008/03/06/citys-creche-madness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:34:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Children & Families]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[City Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edinburgh Leisure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education Dept.]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? It transpired on television last night that six of the eight crÃ¨ches in Edinburgh would be closing forthwith without any consultation at all.  So much for the listening FibDem/SNP administration who are now showing that childcare in Edinburgh is in it&#8217;s biggest crisis in living memory.
EdSucks has received about 20 32 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A plea for help &#8211; Journalists, Councillors anyone</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2008/01/30/a-plea-for-help-journalists-councillors-anyone/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2008/01/30/a-plea-for-help-journalists-councillors-anyone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:51:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[City Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? We received this by email today and would like EdSucks readers to do whatever you can to help this group.  There are some ways at the end of the post.  Thanks.

Please read and email if you can.

I am writing to you on behalf of the staff and Board of Edinburgh [...]]]></description>
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		<title>They paid for a poll and they don&#8217;t believe the answers</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2008/01/28/they-paid-for-a-poll-and-they-dont-believe-the-answers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2008/01/28/they-paid-for-a-poll-and-they-dont-believe-the-answers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:08:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chamber of Commerce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[City Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jenny Dawe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TIE-Transport Initiatives Edinburgh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trams]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[All the people who are gaining from the tram kit that they are installing into the city - mostly the Chamber of Commerce, the high-pressure selling FSB,  highly paid TIE executives, persons in receipt of plain brown envelopes have gotten themselves into bed with the council on a quango called Open for Business.

Not happy with the backslapping they give each other, they have now decided to spend ]]></description>
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		<title>Full steam ahead and screw the War Memorial</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2008/01/14/full-steam-ahead-and-screw-the-war-memorial/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2008/01/14/full-steam-ahead-and-screw-the-war-memorial/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:48:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[City Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Councillors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EDI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MSPs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[haymarket]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[war memorial]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? 
Lost because of the trams

It seems that the trams have taken over the city completely including running all the way through the The McCrae&#8217;s Battalion War Memorial at the Haymarket.
In recent weeks we have been pounded with stories about trams, including the complete closure of Shandwick Place for months which never reared [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chamber of Commerce blew it for their members</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2008/01/12/chamber-of-commerce-blew-it-for-their-members/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2008/01/12/chamber-of-commerce-blew-it-for-their-members/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2008 16:42:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chamber of Commerce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[City Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jenny Dawe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[payments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trams]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It seems Edinburghâ€™s Chamber of Commerce are as good at fighting for their members as the Council are for businesses and that is pisspoor. After a few days of guffawing over who should get the cash windfall and a reduction in business rates the Council and EDI have caved in and brought the cut-off]]></description>
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		<title>Bunty&#8217;s crowning glory &#8211; a fcuk-up</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2007/10/02/buntys-crowning-glory-a-fcuk-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2007/10/02/buntys-crowning-glory-a-fcuk-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 07:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[City Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elizabeth Maginnis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ian Perry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Izatt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Waterfront]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? Elizabeth &#8220;Bunty Backhander&#8221; Maginnis&#8217; crowning glory, the National Galleries site,Â which she leaked to the Evening News last week against all ethical practices for board members turns out to have been a complete fcuk-up.
Edinburgh Sucks now knows why both Waterfront Edinburgh Limited (WEL) and the Scottish Executive never came out shouting and cheering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sorry Porty, we (Labour council) forgot to ask for the money</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2007/10/01/sorry-porty-we-labour-council-forgot-to-ask-for-the-money/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2007/10/01/sorry-porty-we-labour-council-forgot-to-ask-for-the-money/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 02:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Children & Families]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[City Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education Dept.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ewan Aitken]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gillian Tee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ian Perry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Rosendale]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roy Jobson]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? Everyone around the city spent hours and hours on campaigns to get their new school built.Â  Labour were running round the city pretending to &#8220;listen to the people&#8221;, they even lied at a public meeting that they had bought a piece of land to be used as the new Portobello Golf course [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More council money down the drain</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2007/09/17/more-council-money-down-the-drain/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2007/09/17/more-council-money-down-the-drain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 09:39:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Children & Families]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[City Council]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? In the midst of all the huge cuts in services in the city and never smart in the IT arena, word reaches us that the council (mainly Children &#038; Families) are again throwing our money down the toilet on needless purchases.
The company have signed up with Australian company StudyWiz for their Virtual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MacLaren, stop listening to Fraudster Rosendale and listen to the experts</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2007/09/10/maclaren-stop-listening-to-fraudster-rosendale-and-listen-to-the-experts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2007/09/10/maclaren-stop-listening-to-fraudster-rosendale-and-listen-to-the-experts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 08:21:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Children & Families]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[City Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lib-Dem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marilyne MacLaren]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Rosendale]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? This is a message to the LibDem led administration.Â  Below is a letter that was published in the Daily Telegraph today and signed by 270 professionals, academics and children&#8217;s writers.Â  It is time for the LibDems who spent a large majority of the last Council when they were in opposition taking swipes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mountgrange makes Private Eye</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2007/08/31/mountgrange-makes-private-eye/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2007/08/31/mountgrange-makes-private-eye/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:59:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[City Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[City Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Planning Dept.]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? Mountgange&#8217;s PR consultants, PPS GroupÂ who carried out the public consultation on the trashing of the Canongate were recently trashed on Channel 4&#8217;s Dispatches programme.
Private Eye have now continued with the trashing and tells us that concerned locals are now jumping mad:
Take the group&#8217;s work for developer Mountgrange, which wants to flatten homes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Â£9m hole found?</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2007/08/31/new-%c2%a39m-hole-found/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2007/08/31/new-%c2%a39m-hole-found/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Children & Families]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[City Council]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? Word is coming in that the council-owned company regenerating Craigmillar, Parc,Â has a Â£9m hole that has been discovered.Â  Is this true and is this the reason they now don&#8217;t want to build a new Castlebrae?
We are really not sure of this piece of info but feel that it is worth putting out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another school joining the closure discussion &#8211; Brunstane</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2007/08/30/another-school-joining-the-closure-discussion-brunstane/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2007 11:05:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Children & Families]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? EdinburghSucks can exclusively reveal that yet another school will be added to the closure discussions.
It seems that plans have been drawn up to not only close Lismore Primary School in the East but also to close nearby Brunstane school and build a new joint campus at Duddingston Yards.
More info is expected into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How much?  Too bloody much!</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2007/08/29/how-much-too-bloody-much/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2007/08/29/how-much-too-bloody-much/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2007 07:50:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[City Council]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? It seems that as well as the Education Committee meeting yesterday there was also a meeting to discuss requesting a report on how much it would cost the city to bring back ceremonial robes.
Well Councillors.Â  To save you money, we at EdSucks have carried out the report and come up with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tram bungles begin</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2007/08/22/tram-bungles-begin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2007 21:11:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[City Council]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? News into EdSucks is that the current works on re-routing the ulilities have already hit a stumbling block both on Leith Walk and Elm Row.Â 
The joint utilites contractor, McAlpines has recently started excavating trial pits in Leith Walk &#8211; standard practice when a contractor hasn&#8217;t a clue &#8216;what&#8217;s where&#8217; under the road, [...]]]></description>
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