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	<title>Edinburgh Sucks! &#187; Cleansing Dept.</title>
	<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com</link>
	<description>An account of how the politicians and officials are screwing our city.</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:04:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>What wasn&#8217;t in the Evening News - A whistleblower hunt</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/04/13/what-wasnt-in-the-evening-news-a-whistleblower-hunt/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/04/13/what-wasnt-in-the-evening-news-a-whistleblower-hunt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Apr 2006 05:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? A senior source in the &#8216;Services for the Community&#8217; 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&#8217;t published in the front page Evening News story &#8220;City recycles waste depot bid&#8216; tonight.  Further, in true City [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You can&#8217;t make this Sh1t up - Pun intended.</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/04/05/you-cant-make-this-sh1t-up-pun-intended/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/04/05/you-cant-make-this-sh1t-up-pun-intended/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Apr 2006 05:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Burns]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[City Council]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[David Hillson]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Donald Anderson]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mike Rosendale]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? Alan Roden of the Evening News must have been looking at his calendar when Donald &#8216;Teflon Don&#8217; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is your park a dog toilet too?</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/03/06/is-your-park-a-dog-toilet-too/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/03/06/is-your-park-a-dog-toilet-too/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Mar 2006 23:29:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[City Council]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Mike Drewry]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/03/06/is-your-park-a-dog-toilet-too/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? 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, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teflon Don to Quit, non-story</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/02/17/teflon-don-to-quit-non-story/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/02/17/teflon-don-to-quit-non-story/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2006 08:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Cleansing Dept.]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Donald Anderson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? 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 &#8220;Teflon Don&#8221; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Audit Scotland report blasts council</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2005/12/16/audit-scotland-report-blasts-council/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2005/12/16/audit-scotland-report-blasts-council/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2005 08:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[City Council]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Cleansing Dept.]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Donald Anderson]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Finance Dept.]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Transport Dept]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.edinburghsucks.com/?p=324</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? 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&#8217;s findings revealed that 56 per [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The  £8m Blame Game</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2005/09/08/the-%c2%a38m-blame-game/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2005/09/08/the-%c2%a38m-blame-game/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2005 08:09:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[City Council]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Cleansing Dept.]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Education Dept.]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Finance Dept.]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Housing Dept.]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Maureen Child]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.edinburghsucks.com/?p=267</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? It seems that the highly paid directors of the council departments have received an &#8216;F&#8217; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Council &#8216;at it&#8217; again - More cash registers</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2005/07/12/council-at-it-again/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2005/07/12/council-at-it-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2005 13:22:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? The council have today announced that they are today about to hammer it&#8217;s citizens again.
With the new no smoking legislation coming into force early next year, the council want to cash in on the people who go outside to smoke, effectively making huge tracts of the city no-smoking whether they are indoors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Jobs for the boys&#8217; in the Council - Proof</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2005/07/04/jobs-for-the-boys-in-the-council-proof/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2005/07/04/jobs-for-the-boys-in-the-council-proof/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2005 14:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Donald Anderson]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Housing Dept.]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Jenny Dawe]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Labour]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Planning Dept.]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2005/07/04/jobs-for-the-boys-in-the-council-proof/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? Yet again, an insider recruitment process to find the head of a major new council department has been exposed as an example of &#8220;jobs for the boys&#8221;.
Teflon Don Anderson is becoming more and more blatent at getting his gophers into the positions so that he can control them.
The city council has decided [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Council forced into U-Turn</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2005/06/26/council-forced-into-u-turn/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2005/06/26/council-forced-into-u-turn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2005 04:31:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[City Council]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Donald Anderson]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Iain Whyte]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2005/06/26/council-forced-into-u-turn/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? The council were today reported to have been forced into a u-turn after they turned the city into a huge rubbish dump as opposition councillors slammed the administration of lying to them earlier in the day.
Tory leader Iain Whyte today described the U-turn as &#8220;astonishing&#8221; and accused refuse staff of holding the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rubbish piling up</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2005/06/25/rubbish-piling-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2005/06/25/rubbish-piling-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2005 02:40:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? Still catching up - The beautiful city of Edinburgh is fast becoming a huge rubbish dump as council&#8217;s environmental and consumer services department cut some of the trucks used in the refuse collection a few weeks ago which we covered here.  
Whilst the binmen say they are doing everything possible and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wheelie bins - permanent street furniture?</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2005/06/15/wheelie-bins-permanent-street-furniture/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2005/06/15/wheelie-bins-permanent-street-furniture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2005 10:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Cleansing Dept.]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Maureen Child]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Nigel Griffiths]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2005/06/15/wheelie-bins-permanent-street-furniture/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? How can we expect the council to get rid of the rubbish in the administration up in the High Street when that administration cannot even get the rubbish collected from the citizens.
Wheelie bins are now becoming permanent street furniture around the city as the councillors have withdrawn the required facilities to allow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Locals have shamed the council</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2005/04/29/edinburgh-evening-news-top-stories-people-powers-the-quay-in-river-clean-up-battle/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2005/04/29/edinburgh-evening-news-top-stories-people-powers-the-quay-in-river-clean-up-battle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2005 09:42:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2005/04/28/edinburgh-evening-news-top-stories-people-powers-the-quay-in-river-clean-up-battle/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? Again let down by the council, local leithers are getting together to do their work.  As previously reported here on &#8216;Edinburgh Sucks!&#8217;, the city council have 10 years of trash sitting sitting in the stretch of water from Great Junction Street to the docks.  Forth Ports Authority which also have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 years of floating rubbish</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2005/04/19/10-years-of-floating-rubbish/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2005/04/19/10-years-of-floating-rubbish/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2005 22:36:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? The tourist industry in Leith has had enough of the decade of floating rubbish going from Great Junction Street to the Docks.  It seems with all the talk of the rich getting richer  in Leith,  the councillors have put their heads down and sent the spokeswoman out to say [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A blast from the past</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2005/04/09/a-blast-from-the-past/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2005/04/09/a-blast-from-the-past/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Apr 2005 23:30:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.edinburghsucks.com/?p=51</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems as though the cleansing department got more rules today along the same lines as back in July 2004.   As well as taking down the <a href="http://www.edinburghsucks.com/?p=31">illegal posters</a> of city MP Nigel Griffiths they have also got to make sure certain parts of the city get some special treatment.   This happened before when "The Leader", Donald Anderson got his route to work given special attention, below is a press quote at the time:]]></description>
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		<title>Councillors put head downas rubbish piles up</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2005/04/07/councillors-put-head-downas-rubbish-piles-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2005/04/07/councillors-put-head-downas-rubbish-piles-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Yet again the ruling councillors of Edinburgh have put their heads down and when their is bad news sent in the spokeswoman to explain to the taxpayers of Edinburgh that the £1.13 million the council paid for four of the vehicles may well have been wasted.]]></description>
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		<title>Strike looms as bin jobs go</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2005/03/17/strike-looms-as-bin-jobs-go/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2005/03/17/strike-looms-as-bin-jobs-go/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? &#8220;The plans would also impose new conditions on workers including cuts to holiday allowances and changes to the weekly bonus system. Cutting the 50 posts would save the council an estimated GBP 700,000 a year.
But workers are furious about the cuts, and if an agreement cannot be reached between the council and [...]]]></description>
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