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What wasn’t in the Evening News - A whistleblower hunt

By The Basa ⋅ April 13, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

A senior source in the ‘Services for the Community’ which used to be the cleansing department has informed us of the current operating plan for the next month for their workers.  All of this wasn’t published in the front page Evening News story “City recycles waste depot bid‘ tonight.  Further, in true City of Edinburgh Council […]

You can’t make this Sh1t up - Pun intended.

By The Basa ⋅ April 5, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Alan Roden of the Evening News must have been looking at his calendar when Donald ‘Teflon Don’ Anderson told him that he was thinking of DNA testing dogs poo - Yep, it is April - but is it the first!
The council who have shown great skill in IT (when they took a tree surgeon and made him Digital […]

Is your park a dog toilet too?

By The Basa ⋅ March 6, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

The Wit over at Leithal Wit (http://leithalwit.squarespace.com/) thought we may be interested to know the results of a wee FOI request - Edinburgh council is the 4th worst local authority in Scotland for parks judged by spend per person - and the worst city by a country mile.  As The Wit says, this might be […]

Teflon Don to Quit, non-story

By The Basa ⋅ February 17, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Details are a bit sketchy at the moment for us.  But many people including the BBC have been visiting EdSucks to find out about Donald “Teflon Don” Anderson.  It seems that he is to quit (not before time and will he take a lot of them with him) today.
This post will be updated 
UPDATE
So it seems […]

Audit Scotland report blasts council

By The Basa ⋅ December 16, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

The latest Audit Scotland has blasted the city council for constantly failing to meet their requirements. Citizens of the city are well aware of the shortfalls of living in the city but Audit Scotland highlight the problems for the rest of the country to view.
Audit Scotland’s findings revealed that 56 per cent of the […]

The £8m Blame Game

By The Basa ⋅ September 8, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

It seems that the highly paid directors of the council departments have received an ‘F’ in maths this year. An almost £8m of shortfall is expected.
Departments including health and social care, environment and consumer services, housing and the new children and families team look set to run an estimated £7.7m over budget by the […]

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