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Council abuses the elderly - It’s Official

By The Basa ⋅ May 23, 2005 ⋅ One comment

Bedrooms smelling of urine, dietary demands being ignored and no fire drills. This is how the city council is treating the most vulnerable in Council run care homes - this is happening now whilst you are reading this.
Today comes the shocking news from the Care Commission after 31 inspections showed that two-thirds of council-owned […]

Council stabs Leith in the back

By The Basa ⋅ May 23, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Ricky Henderson, Edinburgh City Council’s culture chief has stabbed Leith in the back by digging up an extra £60,000 for the Film Festival but only last week turning down the Leith Festival for an increase of £5,000 over their previous £5,000 grant and indeed cutting their grant down to £2,500.
It seems that the City Center […]

Council slash for Leith Festival

By The Basa ⋅ May 19, 2005 ⋅ One comment

It appears that because the dopy leader of the city council doesn’t walk around Leith then their annual festival gets shafted when it comes down to handing out grants. The council had no problem spending at least eight million pounds on the referendum but have problems granting the £10,000 that the long-standing local festival […]

Burns to finally go - but at what cost!

By The Basa ⋅ May 10, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Celebration should be the order of the day in Edinburgh. Finally, the person who has masterminded the nightmare scenario in the traffic system of Edinburgh for the past 3 years is for the chop. But hold the champagne corks - this is not a listening to the people exercise - this is a […]

Council continues the abuse of City’s dead

By The Basa ⋅ May 3, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

After pulling down gravestones throughout the city, the Council now tell us that the city is running out of space to bury the dead of the city.
The current administration who have been in power for over a decade have not decided to earmark some of the property they have been selling off to developers for […]

Leithers have a different view

By The Basa ⋅ March 20, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

It started with a letter to the Evening News:
Leith needs young families living in affordable housing, not get-rich Charlies. Leith is already showing these scars by creating ghetto areas where the old Leith and the new Leith are already a million miles apart. - More Here
Then the follow-up from Slimeball Coonsillar Gordon Munro saying:
“The Leith […]

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