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Sorry Porty, we (Labour council) forgot to ask for the money

By The Basa ⋅ October 1, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Everyone around the city spent hours and hours on campaigns to get their new school built.  Labour were running round the city pretending to “listen to the people”, they even lied at a public meeting that they had bought a piece of land to be used as the new Portobello Golf course – unfortunately, it [...]

More council money down the drain

By The Basa ⋅ September 17, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

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 & Families) are again throwing our money down the toilet on needless purchases.
The company have signed up with Australian company StudyWiz for their Virtual Learning Environment. 
What makes [...]

MacLaren, stop listening to Fraudster Rosendale and listen to the experts

By The Basa ⋅ September 10, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

This is a message to the LibDem led administration.  Below is a letter that was published in the Daily Telegraph today and signed by 270 professionals, academics and children’s writers.  It is time for the LibDems who spent a large majority of the last Council when they were in opposition taking swipes at Fraudster Rosendale [...]

Mountgrange makes Private Eye

By The Basa ⋅ August 31, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Mountgange’s PR consultants, PPS Group who carried out the public consultation on the trashing of the Canongate were recently trashed on Channel 4’s Dispatches programme.
Private Eye have now continued with the trashing and tells us that concerned locals are now jumping mad:
Take the group’s work for developer Mountgrange, which wants to flatten homes and heritage sites [...]

New £9m hole found?

By The Basa ⋅ August 31, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Word is coming in that the council-owned company regenerating Craigmillar, Parc, has a £9m hole that has been discovered.  Is this true and is this the reason they now don’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 there to see [...]

Another school joining the closure discussion – Brunstane

By The Basa ⋅ August 30, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

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 EdinburghSucks including a [...]

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