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City Council Archive
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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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Craigmillar totally fucked by publicly funded cabal
Posted on July 12, 2006 | 1 CommentLast night at Craigmillar’s Community Council meeting the same three office bearers who were thrown out at the recent elections were installed back into their positions against the wishes of... -
Obviously Dick Dastardly does have friends
Posted on July 11, 2006 | No CommentsIt seems that potential leader of the City’s council, Trevor “(little) Dick Dastardly” Davies, the Planning convenor, has friends in interesting places because he is allowing Regenerate Scotland to continue... -
Ian Perry lies back and takes it
Posted on July 10, 2006 | No CommentsToday we hear that assisted area status is to be dropped in parts of Edinburgh and West Lothian. The scheme which last year gave out more than £200 million to... -
New Leader Vol. III
Posted on July 10, 2006 | No CommentsThere is only one of the council leadership contenders left to highlight some of the problems they have in their current jobs.   Again, the third contender in a row... -
E7 taxis off the road after a week
Posted on July 9, 2006 | No CommentsNews is coming into EdSucks towers that the new E7 taxis have been taken off the road only one week after being launched. News is that a huge cock-up took... -
Council 1/3 responsible in race case
Posted on July 9, 2006 | No CommentsEdinburgh’s council has been found one third responsible for a former Stirling housing officer had a job offer in Edinburgh withdrawn after a warning from an official in Stirling. The... -
New Leader Vol. II
Posted on July 5, 2006 | 1 CommentVolume II in the new leader contest comes in the form of what is known the most left wing of all three candidates. Â Â Councillor Maginnis, who is known... -
Safety! What Safety?
Posted on July 5, 2006 | No CommentsWell it seems that the licensing department of the Council are throwing safety which the council to the gutter in allowing new-fangled rickshaws to transport the citizens around the city... -
New Leader Vol. I
Posted on July 4, 2006 | No CommentsSo this will be the summer of long knives with the city leader up for grabs in August. Â Â Trevor ‘(little) Dick Dastardly’ Davies the man jokingly called the... -
Council forgets the veterans
Posted on June 27, 2006 | No CommentsIn a blaze of publicity in February, Labour’s president-in-waiting and waiting and waiting Gordon Brown announced that June 27th would forthwith be Veteran’s Day. On June 27th the city’s council... -
Housing transfer thrashing makes new council HQ a farce
Posted on June 26, 2006 | No CommentsYou really can’t make this stuff up! It now comes out that the new shiny £50 million council HQ being built in the middle of the city is too small... -
Dick Dastardly’s Planning Dept admit failing to have a plan
Posted on June 22, 2006 | No CommentsIt will come as no shock to EdinburghSucks.com’s regular readers that the Planning Department are in chaos despite assurances from Trevor ‘(little) Dick Dastardly’ Davies spoutings to the press that... -
Council ignores experts…. again!
Posted on June 22, 2006 | No CommentsOnce again the city council are ignoring the advice of the experts (again including the emergency services) and doing their political best to spoil one of the most beautiful streets... -
Council fees increase 33 times rate of inflation
Posted on June 20, 2006 | No CommentsThis years hogmanay bash in the city will be marred by the news that the council intends to increase the entrance fees into the world renowned city centre party by... -
Potential Leader Maginnis – Some Waterfront questions you need to answer
Posted on June 19, 2006 | No CommentsSome interesting information has come our way from friends. You are Chair of Edinburgh’s Waterfront are you not Bunty? As the company is part owned by the Council and the... -
Council out of touch
Posted on June 16, 2006 | No CommentsTaken from today’s Evening News: I READ about the nurse who is having to take her parking charge fight to the Scottish Parliament after she racked up a bill of...