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Council Departments Archive
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Skatepark comments illegally cut short by council
Posted on August 4, 2006 | No CommentsIt appears people wishing to comment on the skatepark have had their right taken away from them at the last minute by the council. Visitors at the city council’s planning... -
Council must be worried about bullied worker’s £800,000 win
Posted on August 2, 2006 | No CommentsWith the news coming in that a bank worker in London won £800,000 damages for four year bullying campaign by bank staff (http://www.scotsman.com/?id=1118332006) the council legal department must be worried... -
Dick Dastardly has another hissy fit
Posted on July 31, 2006 | No CommentsTrevor “(little) Dick Dastardly” Davies yet again uses the letters page of the Evening News to have another huge hissy fit without reading the article correctly or even addressing it’s... -
Shami Dodger Khan in further outrage
Posted on July 28, 2006 | No CommentsWord is coming in to EdSucks Towers about a further, rather sinister development in the Shami ‘Dodger’ Khan Saga. Hard on the heels of his public Evening News ‘Slamming’ by... -
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... -
Children & Families Officials see salary soar up to 65%
Posted on July 21, 2006 | No CommentsInformation leaked to EdinburghSucks.com shows just how good it is to be one of the loved ones in the Chidren & Families Department. When last year their was a re-organisation of Education... -
Why was OpenAllHoors.com blamed on the whistleblower?
Posted on July 20, 2006 | 1 CommentSeemingly OpenAllHoors.com, a website by members of the Comunity Education Department taking a humourous view of the happenings in the department, was blamed on the whistleblower or Donald Reekie. In... -
Pete McDougall blowing the story to TES
Posted on July 18, 2006 | No CommentsNews into edinburghsucks.com is that one of Rosendale’s fraudsters, the jokingly called “Digital Champion”, Pete McDougall is in talks with Times Education Supplement to spill the beans on the whole Cityconnect... -
Despot heirarchy in Children & Families ruins education
Posted on July 18, 2006 | No CommentsJust how wrong can the Children & Families department get the education of our city wrong. Today we find from the Scotsman that Edinburgh have moved down in the list... -
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... -
Rosendale: “Whistleblower out by end of summer”
Posted on July 13, 2006 | No CommentsIt seems that Mike ‘Fraudster’ Rosendale and his senior employees have been letting their fingers do the walking in the latest saga of the Whistleblower case. A personnel official in... -
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... -
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... -
By George – He’s almost got it
Posted on July 8, 2006 | No CommentsFinally in 2006 the city’s Education leader is mentioning the Internet. Pupils are now to get information on how to stop preditors contacting them over the internet and what to... -
Bully brags about councillor’s backing
Posted on July 6, 2006 | No CommentsMike ‘Fraudster’ Rosendale the major bully in the Children & Families department has been bragging that “Ewan Aitken has told me the Councillors want the whistleblower out of the council... -
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...