The shredders are spinning the Rosendale Way

News coming in from Children & Families sources report that departmental Fraudster-in-Chief is, “shredding everything in the guise the department has to downsize for their move to the new building.“ 
However, there is some good news.  “Individuals have found damming information in the filing cabinets that prove Mike Rosendale lied to the investigation team with regards to Edinburgh [...]

Sound Off – and they did!

Tonight’s Evening News’ sound off was lively. For those who missed it, here are the edited highlights:

Put trams to vote
I THINK they should have a referendum on the trams. They will cost a lot of money and they won’t serve all of Edinburgh – not only that, there’s the upheaval it’s going to cause.
Margaret [...]

Audit Scotland report blasts council

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

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 [...]

Why are the Council Worried?

It’s not that we are suspicious of the Council but a very strange story appears in today’s Evening News. The council are worried about getting paid from the Scottish Executive for their outlays during the G8 Meeting.
What makes this item so strange is that:

City finance leader Maureen Child said: “We’ve had a clear [...]

Council trying to ‘rip off’ elderly

Careful reading and just a little bit of research at the ESPC website seems to show that although the council make many, many millions by selling off city-owned land, however when the council require to buy land from their own residents who pay council tax – a ‘rip-off’ situation ensues.
Residents who are being forced from [...]