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Bunty Backhander and the Wardie Crescent development

By The Basa ⋅ April 27, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

It seems that residents of Wardie Crescent are up in arms because one of their neighbours is building six houses in their back garden and didn’t go to the bother of applying for planning permission for the buildings.  Why, you ask!
Well it seems that the occupier of the house in whose back garden the houses […]

Council leader has his head in the sand

By The Basa ⋅ February 23, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Roll on May.  With the news today that one of the UK’s leading retailers of fine jewellery and silverware, Mappin & Webb, are going to close their doors in George Street.  The company which was founded in 1774 and has one of Edinburgh’s best January sales is the latest addition to the mass exodus of […]

Defending the indefensible

By The Basa ⋅ February 5, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Council Leader Ewan ‘Rasputin’ Aitken comes into today’s newspaper defending the indefensible, namely, Trevor ‘the finger’ Davies’ acceptance of free champagne from the people who will be coming to his committee for carte blance permission to go against a community’s wishes in the rush for the mighty dollar.
City leader Ewan Aitken has leapt to the […]

FingerGate begs Code of Conduct questions

By The Basa ⋅ December 14, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

A quick perusal of the The Councillors Code of Conduct leaves a lot of unanswered questions about the future of Trevor Davies in his role as planning supremo.  The code which can be found by clicking here has clearly been breached.
Definitely Section 3.8 has been broken:
3.8 You must not accept any offer by way of […]

Trevor Davies gives 2 year-old the finger!

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

City planning convener, the person who came last in the recent TWAT Party leadership race and TWAT Extrordinaire, Trevor Davies last night both stunned and shocked carol singing protesters, including children, with an obscene one-fingered gesture as he entered a champagne reception for supporters of a controversial scheme to redevelop Edinburgh’s Old Town.
Save Our Old […]

Trevor Davies hissy fit number…. bloody infinity

By The Basa ⋅ November 12, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Yet again for the umteenth fime Trevor Davies the planning chief who tells lies on Talk 107 (CouncilFM) about this site writes to the Evening News this time complaining that the Evening News had the gall to use one of their photos instead of one of the council’s.
I THINK I need to make clear to […]

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